Yr 9 History EQ 5

Segregation

The legal separation of blacks and whites in the South aka ‘Jim Crow’

Plessy v Ferguson

Supreme Court ruling that segregation was legal

Brown v Topeka

Supreme Court ruling that school segregation was illegal

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Successful boycott of local buses in Montgomery, Ala. Led by Martin Luther King

Little Rock High School

Arkansas school that was integrated only after Pres. Eisenhower sent in US troops

Sit-ins

Civil disobedience campaign. Black students sat at white counters and asked for service. 

Freedom Rides

Integrated groups of students rode buses into the South

Birmingham Campaign

King led a march into Birmingham despite a ban. He was jailed but gained publicity

1964 Civil Rights Act

Removed federal funding from states that maintained segregation laws

1896

Plessy v Ferguson

1954

Brown v Topeka

1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott begins

1955

Acquittal of Emmett Till’s murderers

1957

Integration of Little Rock High School

1960

Sit-ins begin

1961

Freedom Rides begin

1963

Birmingham Campaign

1964

President. Johnson passes a new Civil Rights Act

Linda Brown

12 year old girl who was denied access to her local school in Topeka, Kansas

Thurgood Marshall

NAACP lawyer. Led the successful Brown appeal.

Emmett Till

Black boy murdered by the Bryant brothers for saying ‘bye baby’ to a white woman

Martin Luther King

Civil Rights leader. Led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Birmingham Campaign.

Orval Faubus

Governor of Arkansas who tried to prevent the integration of the Little Rock High School

Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor

Notoriously violent head of Birmingham’s Police Dept

Diane Nash

Leading student activist, Prominent in the sit-in and freedom ride protests.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Campaigned to register black voters in Mississippi

James Farmer

Leader of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE). Led early freedom rides.