Civil Rights Movement and Segregation

Flashcards covering key concepts and vocabulary related to the Civil Rights Movement and segregation.

Segregation

The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.

De jure segregation

Segregation imposed by law, where legal statutes require the separation of races.

Jim Crow laws

State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.

Civil Rights Movement

A decades-long struggle by African Americans to end legalized racial discrimination and gain equal rights under the law.

NAACP

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; a civil rights organization co-founded by W.E.B. Du Bois that aimed to ensure political, educational, social, and economic equality for African Americans.

Brown v. Board of Education

A landmark Supreme Court case in 1954 that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.

Separate but equal

A legal doctrine established by Plessy v. Ferguson that upheld racial segregation as long as the separate facilities were purportedly equal.

CORE

Congress of Racial Equality; an organization founded to fight for civil rights through nonviolent protest.

Little Rock Nine

A group of nine African American students who enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957, facing significant opposition.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

A protest against segregated seating on public buses in Montgomery, Alabama, initiated by Rosa Parks' arrest.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

An influential leader in the civil rights movement who advocated for nonviolent protest and civil disobedience.

Civil Rights Act of 1957

A legislation signed by President Eisenhower that aimed to protect African American voting rights and establish the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.