Chapter 18 - The Civil Rights Movement Vocabulary

Stokely Carmicheal

leader of SNCC who believed in black power

Linda Brown

student who was denied admission to her neighborhood school

Rosa Parks

took a seat just behind the white section on a bus; refused to give up her seat to a standing white man

Malcolm x

became a symbol of the black power movement

MLK

minister whose vision and nonviolent methods helped the civil rights movement transform American society

Fannie Lou Hamer

helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Freedom Riders

teams of African Americans and whites who traveled into the South to draw attention to its refusal to integrate bus terminals

James Meredith

first African American student to attend the University of Mississippi

Thurgood Marshall

brilliant African American attorney; focused his efforts on ending segregation in public schools

Marion Barry

One of the early leaders of the SNCC, who later served as the mayor of Washington, D.C.

Memphis, Tennessee

where the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. took place

Selma, Alabama

where the march for freedom took place, in which state troopers and deputized citizens brutally attacked marchers in full view of television, known later as Bloody Sunday

Birmingham, Alabama

city where brutal violence used against demonstrators led to Dr. King being jailed and prompted Kennedy to prepare a new civil rights bill

Little Rock, Arkansas

city where, for the first time since the Civil War, a states armed forces were used to oppose the federal government

Greensboro, North Carolina

city where the sit-in at Woolworths sparked a new mass movement for civil rights

Montgomery, Alabama

city in which there was a successful bus boycott