PRESENTATION OUTLINE
CORE-Congress of Racial Equality; Helped organize integration of the military and later the "freedom rides". Successfully registered voters in the south
Rosa Parks-civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national civil rights movement
Dejure Segregation-Segregation based on laws. Easier to get rid of than defacto segregation
Black Panthers- A black political organization that was against peaceful protest and for violence if needed.
Lyndon Johnson-successfully supported civil rights legislation during his presidency
Malcolm X- became Black Muslims' most dynamic street orator and recruiter who argued for separation, not integration.
SNCC- Organization founded in 1960 by college students to organize sit-ins and other nonviolent protests and offer young people a voice in the movement
Martin Luther King Jr.- Pivotal leader of the American Civil Rights movement. Non-violent leader
SCLC-Organization formed by MLK in 1957 to organize nonviolent resistance to achieve equality for African Americans
Stokely Carmichael-Coined the phrase "black power" and led SNCC away from a nonviolent approach.
Social Movement- groupings of individuals or organizations which focus on specific political or social issues.
Civil Disobedience- refusal to obey governmental demands or commands especially as a nonviolent and usually collective means of forcing concessions from the government.
Civil Rights- powers or privileges guaranteed to individuals and protected from arbitrary removal at the hands of government or individuals.
Boycott- a refusal to do business with a firm, individual, or nation as an expression of disapproval or as a means of correction.
Sit in- occupy a place as a form of protest.
Nonviolent Protests- practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, or other methods, without using violence.
Little Rock Nine-a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
Montgomery Bus Boycott-seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
March on Washington-largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans.
Civil Rights Act- primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation passed by Congress in the United States since the 1866 and 1875 Acts.
Voting Rights Act of 1965- law passed at the time of the civil rights movement. It eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people.
Equal Employment Opportunity- to eliminate discrimination in employment based on race, color, age, sex, national origin, religion, or mental or physical disability.
Watts Riot- group of violent disturbances in Watts, a largely black section of Los Angeles, in 1965. Over thirty people died in the Watts riots, which were the first of several serious clashes between black people and police in the late 1960s.
24th Amendment- the Constitution of the United States of America abolished the poll tax for all federal elections.
Emmit Till- was an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman
James Merideth-civil rights activist who became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962.
George Wallace- olitical leader of the twentieth century. As governor of Alabama in the 1960s, he resisted integration and promised to “stand at the schoolhouse door” to bar black people from admission to the University of Alabama.
Earl Warren- American jurist and politician, who served as the 30th Governor of California
Dwight D. Eisenhower-United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany; 34th President of the United States
