Final Exam People #8: Civil Rights Movement

Thurgood Marshall: worked for NAACP, lead attorney on Brown v. Board of Education, and first African American Supreme Court justice.

Harry Byrd: VA governor during the Great Depression, became VA’s longest-running member of the Senate (nearly 4 decades between 1930s and 60s). Gave a speech in which he coined the phrase “massive resistance” and advocated against desegregation.

Rosa Parks (155): refused to give up her seat on a bus and was arrested, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycotts.

George Wallace: radical governor of Alabama from 1963-1967 who ran on a platform of segregation. He is the only person mentioned in MLK Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech

Bull Connor: Birmingham, Alabama Chief of Police who was known for reacting extremely violently to peaceful protesters.