Chapter 28- The Civil Rights Movement Flashcards

790994286	CORE	Committee Of Racial Equality; an organization dedicated to the practice of nonviolent process
790994287	Robinson	American baseball player; he was the first black player in the major leagues
790994288	Legal rights, nonviolent protests, establishing organizations to expand civil rights	what were some of the methods which civil rights were expanded in the years before 1954?
790994289	Brown vs. BOE	Linda Brown, an African American third grader, lived blocks away from a white school but walked 5 blocks and took a bus for two miles to get to her school NAACP recruited Brown's parents to challenge segregation of schools in supreme court
790994290	Segregation had harmed the self-image of young children	What kinds of issues faced the Supreme Court in making its Brown decision?
790994291	Little rock nine	nine African American students who first integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957
790994292	SCLC	Southern Christian Leadership Conference; a group formed in Georgia in 1957 to organize civil rights protest activities
790994293	Farmer	American civil rights leader and founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). He believed in the practice of nonviolence as a means of achieving his organizations' goals
790994294	Sit ins	African Americans were denied service so they didn't move from their seats
790994295	SNCC	Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; student civil rights organization in the 1960s
790994296	Meredith	Civil rights activist who entered the University of Mississippi after being denied admission because of his race. His entrance led to violent riots on the school's campus
790994297	Vivian Malone and Jimmy Hood	Governor George Wallace physically blocked this two from enrolling into University of Alabama; eventually stepped aside
790994298	Both nonviolent and had people arrested	How were the Albany and Birmingham Campaigns alike?
790994299	Letter from Birmingham Jail	a letter rejecting charges that a group of white clergy wrote in an ad in a newspaper
790994300	March on Washington	a march for jobs and freedom largest civil rights demonstration MLK delivered "I Have A Dream" speech
790994301	Civil Rights Act of 1964	act signed into law on July 2, 1964 that banned discrimination in employment and in public accommodations
790994302	Freedom Riders	activists who challenged segregation in bus terminals in the south in 1961
790994303	VEP	Voter Education Project: group founded in 1962 to register souther African Americans to vote
790994304	24th Amendment	banned states from taxing citizens to vote in elections banned poll taxes
790994305	Freedom Summer	a volunteer project in which college students spent their summer vacation in Mississippi, registering African Americans to vote
790994306	June 20, 1964	Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner were all volunteers arrested and later killed for trying to help African Americans (date)
790994307	MFDP	Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; a political party created in 1964 with the purpose of winning seats at the 1964 Democratic National Convention
790994308	Hamer	American civil rights activist, she was a prominent leader of the Mississippi Democratic Party
790994309	Voting Rights Act of 1965	civil rights law that banned literacy tests and other practices that discouraged blacks from voting
790994310	Selma Campaign	James Perkins became the first African American mayor of Selma represented end of one of the bloodiest marches that took place 35 years ago
790994311	Reynolds v. Sims	about three-fourths of Alabama lived in cities but rural voters still controlled both houses of the legislature. A group of Birmingham citizens sued
790994312	de jure segregation	segregation by law
790994313	de facto segregation	segregation that exists through custom and practice rather than by law
790994314	Stokely Carmichael	civil rights activist in the United States; he was an important leader of the black nationalism movement in the 1960s
790994315	Black Power	an African American social movement in the late 1960s that advocated unity and self-reliance to address injustice
790994316	Black Panther Party	a group formed in 1966, inspired by the idea of Black Power, that provided aid to black neighborhoods; often thought of as radical or violent
790994317	Malcolm X	well-known supporter of the nation of islam and black leader; he spoke in support of black separatism, black pride, and the use of violence for self protection "by any means necessary"
790994318	Resurrection City	African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, and whites occupied national mall Protesting their poverty
790994319	Poor People's Campaign	an expansion of the civil rights movement that tried to raise awareness about poverty among people of all races
790994320	Abernathy	MLK's successor as head of the SCLC, he led the Poor People's Campaign after King's death
790994321	Civil Rights Act of 1968	law that banned discrimination in the sale or rental of housing Fair Housing Act
790994322	affirmative action	programs that gave preference to minorities and women in hiring and admissions