this federal organization used anticommunist fears to justify attacks on civil rights activists
Federal Bureau of Investigation
the incident HERE involving white police attacking a discharged black sergeant caused Truman to establish the Pres. Committee on Civil Rights
Aiken, South Carolina
the report by the Presidents' Committee on Civil Rights that called for antilynching/anti-segregation legislation and laws guaranteeing voting rights/equal employment opportunity
To Secure These Rights
the first of 2 executive orders established by Truman in 1948 enforced the policy of fair employment by creating THIS to hear charges about discrimination
Employment Board of Civil Service Commission
what did the second of the 2 executive orders of 1948 order?
racial desegregation of armed forces
the first black baseball player that established the emergence of a new black middle class
Jackie Robinson
the head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund who carried forward a plan meant to destroy the separate but equal doctrine of Plessy vs Furgeson
Thurgood Marshall
this court case outlawed whites-only primaries held by the Dem. Party
Smith vs Allwright
this court case struck down interstate bussing segregation
Morgan vs. VA
this court case claimed that racially restrictive covenants couldn't legally be enforced
Shelley vs Kraemer
the major court case that enforced school desegregation for several states that were formerly segregated (Earl Warren=chief justice--> separate but equal doesn't apply to education)
Brown vs. BOE of Topeka
the dept. store seamstress/NAACP activist that was arrested in Montgomery, AL when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a public bus
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks inspired a boycott of Montgomery's bus system led by ?
MLKJ
this man, educated in the teachings of Gandhi and a Baptist minister, believed in nonviolence and civil disobedience and eventually lead the biggest civil rights movement in America
Martin Luther King Jr.
true or false: Montgomery's bus segregation was eventually declared unconstitutional
true
THIS GROUP saw a resurgence when school desegregation was ordered and it led to increased black-white violence
KKK
this 14 year old was murdered in Mississippi by a group of white men who took offense at how he spoke to a white woman; the men were acquitted
Emmett Till
these "uptown KKKs" were created to express white resentment at school desegregation
White Citizens' Council
this Virginia Senator proposed massive resistance to desegregation which eventually caused VA to refuse state funding to integrated schools
Harry Byrd Sr.
in this Northern city, 1000s of whites provoked a race riot to keep blacks from their neighborhoods
Cicero
most segregated and discriminatory northern city
Chicago
this was Dem. congressmen/senators condemnation of the Brown vs BOE decision as an unwarranted power of Court which violated states' rights
The Southern Manifesto
the Arkansas governor that defied a court-supported desegregation plan for Little Rock's Central HS in which 9 black students were turned away by National Guard troops
Orval Faubas
Eisenhower nationalized the Arkansas National Guard and dispatched paratroopers to guard the 9 black students who were famously called?
Little Rock Nine
this act created the US Commission on Civil Rights to investigate systemic discrimination
Civil Rights Act
MLKJ became the 1st pres of THIS organization that was created to coordinate civil rights movements/activities
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)