Civil Rights Movement Flashcards
Montgomery Bus Boycott
NAACP member Rosa Parks refused for refusing to get out of her seat at the front of the ‘coloured’ section of the bus.
Her arrest sparked a bus boycott that started on December 1, 1955 and only ended more than a year later when the buses were desegregated.
Martin Luther King lead the boycott
Freedom Riders
13 CORE member started riding inter-state buses from Washington to New Orleans so that they could see if there was segregation. Ran into KKK, who burnt the buses and beat up the passengers.
Many freedom fighters were hurt/arrested.
Media coverage resulted in desegregation spreading to railways and airports by late 1961
KKK (Ku Klux Klan)
Terrorist organization
lynched black people
Plessy vs Ferguson
Laws that legalized segregation (Jim Crow Laws)
“separate but equal”
Brown vs Topeka Board Of Education
Made it illegal to separate children in school by the color of their skin
Little Rock 9
When 9 African Americans atttempted to join Little Rock High School after Brown vs BOE, the Governer of Arkansas at the time (Orval Faubus), sent the National Guard to prevent them from entering school.
Dwight Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne Division paratroopers to protect the kids and put the National Guard under federal command.
Emmett Till
In 1955, 14 year old from Chicago killed while visiting family in Mississippi.
Kidnapped, beaten, shot, and dumped into Tallahatchie River.
Two white men were acquitted for his murder by an all white jury, they later boasted about murdering him in a magazine.
Greensboro Sit Ins
1960 - 4 black students sat at a Woolworth’s counter. They were denied service(first) but were allowed to sit there. 6 months later the same 4 students were served lunch at the same counter.
