Civil Rights Era Flashcards
(16 cards)
NAACP
Group of lawyers who worked to end segregation through the legal system
Brown v Board of Ed
Segregation in public schools violates the 14th Amendment “Separate but equal is inherently unequal” calls for the integration of schools in segregated south
Little Rock Nine
African American students who integrated Little Rock Arkansas School
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Refusal to use the buses until the practice of segregation
Rosa Parks
She would not move from the front of the bus for a white man.
Martin Luther King
Organized Montgomery bus boycott, Birmingham march and Washington march
“I have a dream” Speech
Called for an end of Discrimination and segregation people should be judged by their Character
Kennedy’s Inaugural Address
“Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country” inspired young people to get involved
Lee Harvey Oswald
Assassinated Kennedy
The Great Society
Plan to end poverty and discrimination
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Ended discrimination in public place
Greensborough lunch
counter protest
Young man sat down at Woolworths lunch counter to protest segregation
Sit- ins
Form of protest used in restaurants lunch counters ie Woolworths
“Letter from Birmingham
jail”
Expressed frustration and demanded equality now
Voting Rights Act of 1964
Made poll taxes and literacy tests illegal
(NOW)
Called for equality for women
