History final exam: 10. Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968)

A movement in the 1950s-1960s to end racial segregation and win equal rights for Black Americans

What was the civil rights movement?

The movement wanted to end racial segregation especially in the South

Where did the Civil Rights Movement want to end racial segregation?

They wanted to protect voting rights for Black Americans

What are the main rights the movement wanted to protect?

They wanted to promote equality in education, jobs, and housing

What did the movement promote?

They wanted to challenge discriminatory laws like Jim Crow laws

What laws did they want to challenge with this movement?

The movement wanted to secure legal and social justice

What did the movement want to secure?

Martin Luther King Jr advocated for nonviolent resistance and led marches, boycotts, and gave the famous “I have a Dream” speech

Who is Martin Luther King Jr?

She refused to give up her seat on the segregated bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Who is Rosa Parks?

NAACP lawyer who won Brown v Board of Education, and later became the first Black Supreme Court Justice

Who is Thurgood Marshall?

Brown v. Board is when the Supreme Court declared school segregation unconstitutional

What is Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?

The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted over a year and ended segregated buses in Montgomery

What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1956-1956)?

Little Rock Nine is when Nine Black students integrated Central High School in Arkansas with federal protection

What is Little Rock Nine (1957)?

The March on Washington is when Over 250,000 people gathered for jobs and freedom and where MLK gave his “I have a Dream” speech

What is the March on Washington (1963)?

Fannie Lou Hamer is a powerful activist for voting rights and co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned segregation in public places and outlawed job discrimination based on race, religion, or gender

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned voter suppression tactics like literacy tests and poll taxes

What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

The Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

What is the Fair Housing Act of 1968?

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

What is the NAACP?

The movement helped bring legal equality to millions of Black Americans

What impact did the Civil Rights Movement have?

The Civil Rights Movement inspired other civil rights movements like for women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, immigrant rights)

How did the Civil Rights Movement have an impact on other civil rights movements?

The movement showed the power of nonviolent protests

How did the Civil Rights Movement show their power?

A powerful civil rights leader who spoke out for Black pride, independence, and self defense

Who is Malcolm X?

A 15-year-old Black girl who refused to give up her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery Alabama, in 1965 —- before Rosa Parks

Who is Claudette Colvin?

A set of state and local laws in the Southern US from the late 1800s to the 1960s

What are Jim Crow Laws?

Jim Crow Laws enforce racial segregation in public places —- schools, buses, restaurants, and bathrooms

What did Jim Crow Laws enforce?

Jim Crow Laws made Black Americans second-class citizens

How did Jim Crow Laws treat Black Americans?

Jim Crow Laws were eventually overturned by the Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Rights Act (1965)

What were Jim Crow Laws overturned by?

Other groups, like women, Latinos, Native Americans, LGBTQ+ people, and people with disabilities, also began demanding equal rights and protection due to the Civil Rights Movement

What were the other groups that demanded equal rights and protection?

The Latino Rights Movement was led by figures like Cesar Chavez

Who led the Latino Rights Movement?

The Latino Rights Movement fought for farm workers’ rights, better pay, working conditions, and education

What did the Latino Rights Movement fight for?

The Chicano Movement pushed for cultural pride and political equality

What did the Chicano Movement push for with Latino Righrs?

AIM (American Indian Movement) was apart of the Native American Rights Movement

What groups were apart of the Native American Rights Movement?

The Native American Rights Movement demanded land rights, and better treatment from the US government

What did the Native American Rights Movement demand?

The LGBTQ + Movement was sparked by the Stonewall Riots (1969) in New York City

What sparked the LGBTQ + Rights Movement?

The LGBTQ + Movement fought against police harassment and for equal rights and protection

What did the LGBTQ + Rights Movement fight against?

The Disability Rights Movement pushed for accessibility, education, and workplace rights

What did the Disability Rights Movement push for?