VQ 9:2 Terms
Desegregation – Policy of combining African American and white facilities (reversing the earlier “separate but equal” policies set by the Jim Crow laws)
Civil Disobedience - BREAK laws that are unjust in a non violent manner (Ex. Sit-in)
Martin Luther King, Jr. – Civil Rights leader who uses CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION – Says that the “Separate but equal” ruling set by Plessy v. Ferguson is UNCONSTITUTIONAL and uses the 14th Amendment (EQUAL PROTECTION) as justification
Rosa Parks – refuses to move from her spot (in the correct area of the bus) when a white man wants to sit; her arrest sparks the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Little Rock 9 – Eisenhower is forced to send in the 101st Airborne after Arkansas governor, Faubus, used Arkansas National Guard troops to prevent 9 African American students from coming to the white high school. Shows Brown vs. Board being enforced!
James Meredith – Kennedy sends troops to have Meredith escorted to college after he is prevented from entering the University of Mississippi
Sit-ins/Freedom Rides/Marches – Forms of peaceful protests trying to bring about desegregation
How Presidents of the 50s/60s enforced desegregation – sent in troops
CORE/NAACP/SNCC/SCLC – groups pushing for equal rights with different approaches
Malcolm X and the Black Muslims/Black Panthers – more militant groups focusing on black power
Civil Rights Act 1964/Voting Rights Act 1965 – Help to bring an end to discrimination against African Americans and help remove racial barriers to voting