Civil Rights

Civil Rights

• rights for people to equality
• social freedom

Social Movement

• Group Action
• worked to bring a change in the world
• Many people during the civil rights era did these

Civil Disobedience

• refuse to obey certain laws
• challenges author

De Jure Segregation

• separation enforced by law
• Ex: Plessy vs Ferguson

Desegregation

• spread after the case brown vs. Board of Education.
• no more segregation

Boycott

• a protest
• nonviolent
• spread the word about the wrongs of the government

Sit-in

• many african americans sit in in diners
• so that we today can eat together

Non-violent Protest

• lead by MLK
• not fighting back but
• fighting the power

SCLC

• southern christian leadership conference
• founder was MLK

SNCC

• Student non violent coordinating committe
• most important organization during the time
• student meeting by Ella Baker

CORE

• congress of racial equality
• "Big 4"Organization
• James Farmer Nonviolent protest

Little Rock Nine

• Nine African American Students
• prevented from entering racially segregated schools
• by the govener of Arkansas

Black Panthers

• fight for black rights
• Founder Huey P. Newton

Montgomery Bus Boycott

• 1955 started with Rosa Parks
• led By MLK
• Ended a year later

March On Washington

• MLK lead the march along with several other activist
• He gave his famous "I have a dream" speech
• Attracted people all over

Civil Rights Acts

• 1957:First civil rights legistation voting rights bill
• 1960: Federal Inspection on local voting polls
• 1964: outlawed discriminaton based on race, color , religion

Voting Rights Act of 1965

• prevented racial discrimination when voting
• outlawed literacy test

Equal Employment opportunity commission

• In forces Civil rights laws in the workplace
• founded in 1965

Watts Riot

• in Los Angeles
• costly urban rebellion
• started from an african american motorist
• led to an 11 day riot

24th Amendment

• prohibiting poll tax at national elections
• in 1964

Emmett Till

• African 14 year old killed for supposedly whistling at a white women
• Men were not convicted but confused

Rosa Parks

• women arrested for sitting in whites only section on a bus
• sparks montgomery bus boycott

Martin Luther King Jr.

• Leader of civil rights movement
• Led non violent protest for a change
• assassinated on april 4, 1968

Malcolm x

• American Muslim minister
• ideas of Marcus Garvey
• Black Nationalist who was more of a fight back leader rather than a non violent protestor.

James Meredith

• First african american to attend the university of mississippi in 1962
• Still fought during the area

George Wallace

• former govenor of alabama
• "Segregation forever"
• died in 1998

Stokely Carmichael

• lead the SNCC
• pan-african movement
• Trinidadian- american during the civil rights movement

Earl Warren

• Former govenor of california
• Chief of justice for the supreme court
• died in 74

Dwight D Eisenhower

• 34th president
• signed into the civil rights act of 1957

Lyndon B Johnson

• signed the civil rights acts on national televisison
• Quick action to the civil rights laws