Civil Rights Era 2011-2012 USVA SOL Part XII

In 1947, this person would integrate baseball by being the first African American to play in the Major League

1947 Jackie Robinson

In this 1954 landmark case the United States Supreme Court held that separate but equal schools were not acceptable

Brown v. Board of Education

The Supreme Court ruling in Brown v The Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education stated that this court case was not applicable to public education because it could never be truly equal.

Plessy v. Ferguson

Appointed Chief Council of the NAACP Legal Defense Team, his most famous case as a lawyer was Brown v. Board of Education. He would become a member of the Supreme Court

Thurgood Marshall

President Eisenhower sent one thousand soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army to Central High School in Arkansas to protect nine African American students as they tried to enter the school. What was the nickname of these nine brave students?

The Arkansas 9

In 1954, the political organization of U. S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr In 1954, the political organization of U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr., controlled Virginia politics. Senator Byrd promoted opposing integrated schools. He was able to push through a group of laws, passed in 1958, that were intended to prevent integration of the schools. What were these laws called?

On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, she refused to obey a bus driver’s order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger.

Rosa Parks

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. became well known as a civil rights leader during this event

Montgomery Bus Boycott

In 1961, young people rode buses to Southern cities exposing illegal segregation practices. What was the term for these bus riders?

Freedom Riders

The landmark “I Have a Dream” civil rights speech was delivered at the 1963 March on Washington, D.C. by

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Marchers wanted voting rights for African Americans Marchers wanted voting rights for African Americans. The marchers were violently attacked. Due to the attacks MLK called for another march. 25,000 people showed up to the second march.

Selma to Montgomery Marches

Refers to the movements in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against African Americans and restoring Suffrage in Southern states.

Civil Rights Movement

In 1960, young African-American students demonstrated against segregation by sitting at luncheon counters that only served white patrons. What city did they stage this demonstration at?

Greensboro, North Carolina

He became president upon the death of JFK He became president upon the death of JFK. He openly supported the Civil Rights Movement. He only decided to run for one term.

Lyndon B. Johnson

A set of Domestic plans by Lyndon B. Johnson A set of Domestic plans by Lyndon B. Johnson. In it he created welfare, job, and educational opportunities to help underprivileged Americans.

Great Society

Time when students came to the south to try and get African Americans to register to vote and to teach literacy skills to children.

Freedom Summer

The act (signed by LBJ) prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and gender. It also desegregated public accommodations.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

a large-scale riot which lasted 6 days in a neighborhood Los Angeles, California, in August 1965. By the time the riot subsided, 34 people had been killed, 2,032 injured, and 3,952 arrested.

Watts Riots

An African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans.

Malcolm X

Initially formed to protect local communities from police brutality and racism. The group also ran medical clinics and provided free food to school children. They would want a total revolution.

Black Panthers