Thurgood Marshall
African American lawyer who led legal challenge against segregation
Brown v. Board of Education
Case in which court ruled segregated schools were unconstitutional
Rosa Parks
Woman who helped start Montgomery bus boycott
Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr
Leader of civil rights movement
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Civil rights organization
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Civil rights organization formed by students
sit-in
Protest tactic in which blacks occupied whites-only seats at lunch counters
Name two ways in which WWII helped set stage for civil rights movement
Shortage of white male workers opening up many new job for African Americans helped free Europe ready to fight their own freedom at home
What did Supreme Court rule about separate schools for white and blacks?
Unequal and thus unconstitutional
Name two places that African american targeted for racial discrimination
city buses and high schools
Name two people from whom Martin Luther King Jr drew his ideas
Henry David Thoreau and Mohandas Gandhi
Freedom rider
Civil rights activist who tried to end segregation on national buses
James Meredith
African American who won enrollment to all-white University of Mississippi
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Law that outlawed racial discrimination
Freedom Summer
Name of project to win voting rights for Southern blacks
Robert Moses
Leader of voting project in Mississippi
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Act that struck down state laws intended to keep blacks from voting
Name two ways government helped freedom riders
US marshals protected freedom riders and outlawed segregation in all interstate travel facilities
What was outcome of demonstrations in Birmingham?
Birmingham officials agreed to end segregation in city
Name two things the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did.
outlawed discrimination based on race, religion national origin and gender and gave government more power to push for school desegregation
Name two states where civil rights workers tried to register blacks to vote.
Mississippi and Alabama
De jure segregation
Segregation by law
De facto segregation
Segregation by custom or practice
Malcolm X
African-American leader
Nation of Islam
Group headed by Elijah Muhammad
Stokely Carmichael
Leader of Black Power movement
Black Power
Movement that stressed black pride
Black Panthers
African-American group founded to combat police brutality
Kerner Commission
Commission that reported on state of race relations in America.
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Act that banned discrimination in housing
Affirmative action
Program aimed at hiring or including minorities
Name two problems African Americans in North faced.
Poor schools and high unemployment
Name two new civil rights leaders.
Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael
Name two of nation's leaders killed in 1968
Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert Kennedy
Name one goal civil rights movement achieved and one that remains.
Civil Rights movement achieved law banned discrimination in housing and problem was high unemployment for African Americans
boycott
To protest against something by refusing to buy or use it
discrimination
act of regarding someone as different due to various features, including race
oppression
The state of being kept down or treated poorly.
How did Montgomery Bus Boycott begin?
Begin with Montgomery resident Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to white man than Montgomery Bus Boycott organized yearlong boycott of city's bus system.
Describe Martin Luther King Jr's "soul force.
He based his ideas on teachings of several people and preached nonviolent resistance.
What was objective of freedom rides? of Freedom Summer?
Core testing Supreme Court ruling banned segregation on buses traveling national routes Civil Rights activists worked to gain voting rights for African Americans in South.
What did Malcolm X preach
views of Elijah Muhammad. Muhammad was head of Nation of Islam or Black Muslims
What challenges still face nation in area of civil rights?
based on race, religion, national origin and gender African Americans continue to face high unemployment whites continue to flee cities much of progress in school integregation has been reversed.