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Civil Rights

Civil Rights Movemen

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Thurgood Marshall American civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. Born in Baltimore Maryland; Marshall was a tireless advocate for the rights of minorities and the poor.
Brown vs. Board of Education 1954- challenged the segregation of schools, court decision that declared state laws segregating schools to be unconstitutional. Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Little Rock Nine A group of African American students who were enrolled in a white high school, Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Emmett Till 1955 14 year old boy who was murdered in the South, showed awareness of racism in the South
Rosa Parks African American Secretary of NAACP, spurred the Montgomery Bus Boycott after her arrest for not giving up her seat to a white passenger.
Montgomery Bus Boycott nonviolent protest of segregation on public transportation
Martin Luther King Jr. U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964)
Sit-in demonstration when protesters sit down and refuse to leave
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (1960) student-created & led civil right organization that worked for desegregation through sit-ins, freedom rides, & civil disobedience
John F. Kennedy the first Catholic President of the United States during the Civil Right movement in 1960 and was the youngest president. He moved slowly because he did not have the support. He was assassinated on November 22, 1963. He supported Civil Rights movement. Dealt with foreign policy crisis.
Freedom Rides organized by CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)to protest where African Americans ride on buses. This started in May of 1961 but stopped once mobs got too big to preserve life. Govnment responded by enforced strict bans on segregation on buses. They did produce a change.
Medgar Evers the head of NAACP in Mississippi who was murdered in the front of his house. This was shocking that protests was creating so much violence.
March on Washington massive civil rights demonstration in 1963 a protest held by African Americans. Martin Luther King Jr. stood and gave his "I have a dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial witnessed by 200,000 people.
Lyndon B. Johnson Vice President when John F. Kennedy died and was sworn into office. He was the head of the Senate, so he was able to pass most of the unfinished laws of JFK.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 act signed by President Johnson to ban segregation in public and work place.
Great Society domestic reforms set in motion by President Johnson like medicare. Used to end poverty from racial injustice.
Voting Rights Act of 1965 a law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African-American suffrage
Black Power movement that called for African American independence and says they shouldn't depend on gov. to integrate them
Malcolm X Islam activist who inspired African American independence and Black movement.
Civil Rights Movement movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s and led primarily by African Americans in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual African American citizens
Segregation Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
Desegregation The ending of authorized segregation, or separation by race.
Integration the act of uniting or bringing together, especially people of different races
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