African American History Final

The Cold War offered

media attention on Jim Crow

____ was integrated into an all white school in New Orleans (previously the capital of slave trade)

Ruby Bridges

Brown v Board of Education

Cased picked by the NAACP to show separate is not equal and to overturn Plessy v Ferguson.

Case that had a 9-0 unanimous vote

Brown v Board of Education

Brown v Board of Education 2

ruled ‘schools need to be integrated in all deliberate speed’

Lynching that “launched the civil rights movement“

Emmett Till, August 28th, 1955, visited Mississippi w/ his cousin, was kidnapped and lynched.

Little Rock Nine

3 boys & 6 girls, top of their class. Come from middle class/elite 2 parent households. Escorted to school by the national guard. Ultimately a failed experiment since the school shut down a year later.

Birmingham Campaign

In Alabama, was a desegregation campaign using the “Children’s Crusade” where they had over 2,000 black children protest while the media captured the brutality of police and white mobs did the the children.

Birmingham Campaign White Backlash

Church bombing in Alabama, 4 little girls killed

March on Washington

Protesting over jobs & freedom for colored people, where MLK said “I have a dream”

Percy Green

Jefferson Bank protest leader, climbed the arch in protest of lacking job opportunities

Civil Rights Act of 1964

1) Illegal to discriminate in employment/schooling

2) Segregation of employment/education is illegal

Started by 4 college students on February 1, 1960. Incited a nationwide movement in university towns

Greensboro, North Carolina, Sit Ins

SNCC

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, founded by Ella Baker.

Trains college students to protest and not react to violence they will get during protests.

Freedom Riders

Summer of 1961, DC to New Orleans, riding buses through Jim Crow south. Have run ins with KKK, death threats, mobs

What happened to the Freedom Riders in Jackson, Mississippi?

Were offered military protection by JFK for media coverage. National guard protected them until the cameras turned off, then all the freedom riders were arrested by them.

Case that made interracial marriage legal

Loving v Virginia (1967)

Mississippi Freedom Summer

Led by SNCC, to teach Black people in South to vote, pass literacy tests, & escort them to vote. Paired Black and White students together with known black activists.

SNCC in Selma, Alabama

Protest the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, preacher who was shot by Alabama state trooper

John Lewis

President of SNCC, held non-violent protests

Selma to Montgomery March

Led by John Lewis, set up by MLK, President of SNCC, as a non violent protest. 54 mile march over Jimmie Lee Jackson’s death. Casualties of white people transporting & helping protestors

Civil Rights Act of 1965

Response to Selma to Montgomery March, all U.S citizens have a right to vote, Jim Crow laws are unconstitutional

Civil Rights Act of 1968

prohibits discrimination in housing

Founder of the Black Panther Party