AP US History Period 8.6 & 8.10 Terms & Significance

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Jackie Robinson

first black MLB player (s: broke color barrier)

Thurgood Marshall

NAACP lawyer; first Black Supreme Court justice (s: won Brown v. Board)

Earl Warren

Chief Justice of Supreme Court (s: led liberal rulings on civil rights)

Nonviolent movement

peaceful protest strategy (s: key method of civil rights movement)

Brown v. Board

ended school segregation (s: overturned “separate but equal”)

SNCC

student civil rights group (s: led protests and voter registration)

Dixiecrats

Southern Democrats supporting segregation (s: showed political division over civil rights)

Sweatt v. Painter

Massive resistance

Rosa Parks

Martin Luther King Jr.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Civil Rights Act of 1957

Civil Rights Act of 1960

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Little Rock Nine

Freedom Riders

Sit-ins

Robert F. Kennedy

James Meredith

Eugene “Bull” Connor

March on Washington

Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965

Black Power movement

Malcolm X

Black Panthers

George Wallace