Civil rights(APush)

all of the important figures and events during the civil rights

Legislative

create all the laws

Executive

Truman, Ike, JFK, LBJ

Judicial

court system

Amendments

Voters act(15), civil rights act(14)

Garvey

Back to Africa

NAACP

Non-violent, went through the court systems

SCLC

pastors and christian groups that met together

SNCC

More direct, sit ins, freedom rides, freedom summer

BPP

violent, wore leather and carried guns, did not help the movement for equality

Malcom X

wanted to gain equality faster, disagreed with MLK on peaceful, converted to Islam as “Christianity was a white man’s religion”

MLK Jr.

peaceful, a pastor, had a way with words, was assassinated

White Citizens council

attempted to stop the civil rights movement, turned into the kkk

George Wallace

politician, governor of Alabama, said desegregation would never happen

Bull Connor

police chief, let the kkk have 15 minutes on freedom riders, cruel, ordered fire hoses on children

Little Rock

JFK had to send national guard to protect African american students, people harassed the students

Freedom rides

riders that tested if the states had really had desegregated the buses , attacked on many occasions

Greensboro

sit ins, Woolworth eventually desegregated

Albany

Albany movement, no reaction from police, peaceful

Birmingham

bombs, racist, very violent

Freedom summer

sncc went to southern states to register voters(black), met with resistance

Selma

March, leaders faced resistance