Civil rights Movement Flashcards
(16 cards)
What is the Civil Rights Act?
To have equal rights for everyone and it was the 14 amendment
What is the Voting Right Acts?
Signed the law by Lyndon Johnson on August 5, 1965 that Africans Americans should vote
What happened in 1896
In Plessy V Ferguson (Supreme Court) rules that state laws require separation of the races are in bounds of constitution as long it’s equal
What happened in 1954
In Brown V Borad of Education (Supreme Court) the Supreme Court reversed plessy by stating that separate schools are by nature unequal
What happened in 1961?
Congress of Racial Equality organized freedom rides to integrate interstate transportation in the south
What happened in 1964
The Mississippi summer freedom project helped civil rights workers to register blacks to vote
What happened in 1965
The Selma to Montgomery March, King lead 54-mile March to support black voter to registration
What happened in 1968
thousand of workers refused to work because they want high wages, safer work condition and the union
What happened in 1971?
Swan V Charlotter-Mecklenburg Borad of education achieved intergration for public schools
who is Dorothy height?
President of national council of Negro women for 40 years
Helped women rights on African Americans
Who is Martin Luther King Jr
He was a pastor, activist, humanitarian and the leader of civil rights
He made I have a dream speech
Who is James L. Farmer jr?
He organized the 1961 freedom ride on buses throughout American south
Who is Philip Randolph
He was the member of both civil rights movement and labor organization movement and social activist who championed labor rights for blacks
Who is Whitney M. Young
She transform The National Urban League from a passive civil rights organization that worked for economic factors
Rosa parks
Sat on a “whites only” seat in front of the bus
Thurgood Marshall
Civil rights lawyer to stop blacks vs. whites by legal system
