Civil Rights Movement

Double V Campaign

A national effort to advocate for African American rights during WWII that promoted the idea of “double victory”: one abroad and one at home

Brown v Board of Education

A landmark decision of the US Supreme Court which ruled that US state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment

Rosa Parks

An American civil rights activist best known for her refusal to move her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott

Montgomery bus boycott

A protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama that lasted from December 5, 1955- December 20, 1956

Greensboro sit-ins

A series of nonviolent protests from February-July 1960 that led to the formation of the SNCC

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

The principal channel of student commitment in the US to the civil rights movement

1960s voter registration work

The Kennedy administration raised and distributed foundation funds to civil rights organizations for voter education and registration work in the South from 1962-1992

Harry and Harriette Moore

Pioneer activists and leaders of the early civil rights movement who became the first martyrs of the movement after being the first assassination of any activist to occur during the civil rights movement

Martin Luther King Jr.

An American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and political philosopher who was a leader of the civil rights movement from 1955-1968 that employed the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws

Malcolm X

An African American revolutionary, human rights activist,and a member of the Nation of Islam that advocated for Black empo werment and promoted Islam within the African American community

Ella Baker

An African American civil rights and human rights activist and was the primary advisor and strategist of the SNCC

Fannie Lou Hamer

An American voting and women's rights activist who was the vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party and organized Mississippi's Freedom Summer with the SNCC

Lyndon B Johnson

• The 36th president of the US

• Enacted the Great Society program that aimed to expand civil rights, public broadcasting, access to health care, aid to education and the arts, urban and rural development, consumer protection, environmentalism, and public services

• Passed the Social Security Amendment, Medicare and Medicaid, the Higher Education Act, the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Civil Rights Act, and the Voting Rights Act

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

An African American civil rights organization based in Atlanta, Georgia that was founded by MLK Jr.

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

An African American civil rights organization who's mission was to bring about equality for all people and participated in Freedom Rides to test segregated Greyhound buses going from the North to the South

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

An American political party that existed in Mississippi from 1964-1968

March on Washington

A march held in Washington DC on August 28, 1963 to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans

Birmingham campaign

An American movement organized in early 1963 by the SCLC to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama through nonviolent direct action

Freedom Summer

A campaign launched by American civil rights activists in June 1964 to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi

Civil Rights Act of 1964

A landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin

Voting Rights Act of 1965

A landmark US federal statute that prohibits racial discrimination in voting