Chapter 33 - The Civil Rights Movement

Civil rights associations

Civil rights associations

________- Protests + mobilize communities.

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

1971

SCOTUS banned all segregation

1955

Beaten + shot by 2 white men

1955

Refused to move from bus seat

SCOTUS

Ended bus segregation

1965

Selma march

1962

Tried to register @ University of Mississippi

MLK

"I Have a Dream" speech

1964

Civil Rights Act

1965

Lyndon B. Johnson

1965

Dispersed SNCC riot w/ tear gas

Selma march

SCLC march to Montgomery

Militant

Shoot-outs w/ police

Civil rights associations

Protests + mobilize communities

Non-violent protest

Voter registration + desegregation

Militant activism

"Black Power" + "black nationalism"

Segregation

The practice of requiring separate housing, education and other services for people of color

Emmett Till

A 14-year-old African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store

Rosa Parks

An American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott

Montgomery Bus Boycott

A political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama

Martin Luther King, Jr.

An American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

A civil rights organization founded in 1957, as an offshoot of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), which successfully staged a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery Alabama's segregated bus system

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

A civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

An African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the civil rights movement

Sit-Ins

Demonstrators occupy a place open to the public, such as a racially segregated (see segregation) lunch counter or bus station, and then refuse to leave

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

The principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s

Freedom Rides

An interracial bus ride across state lines to test a Supreme Court decision that declared segregation on interstate buses unconstitutional

Medgar Evers

An American civil rights activist and the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi who was assassinated by a white supremacist

Birmingham, Alabama

In the spring of 1963, activists in Birmingham, Alabama launched one of the most influential campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement: Project C, better known as The Birmingham Campaign

March on Washington

A massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Voting Rights Act

A landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting

Freedom Schools

Temporary, alternative, and free schools for African Americans mostly in the South

Selma, Alabama

John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and faced brutal attacks by oncoming state troopers, footage of the violence collectively shocked the nation and galvanized the fight against racial injustice

Malcolm X

African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement

Stokely Carmichael

A prominent organizer in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global pan-African movement

Black Panthers

A militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end political dominance by Whites