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Civil Rights
Terms, people, and events of the Civil Rights Movement
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Civil Rights | Rights guaranteed to citizens by their constitution |
| Tuskegee Airmen | Group of African American pilots whose accomplishments helped to integrate the military in 1948 |
| Jackie Robinson | African American baseball player who integrated professional sports in 1947 |
| Emmett Till | Young African American boy whose murder sparked the Civil Rights Movement |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court Case that resulted in segregation being legal in 1896 (believed separate facilities for the races was equal) |
| Brown v. Board of Education | Supreme Court case that resulted in segregation being illegal in 1854 (believed that separate facilities for the races was NOT equal) |
| Little Rock Nine | Group of African American students who integrated Little Rock High School in 1957 |
| Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg | Supreme Court case that resulted in school systems having to use buses to integrate schools across the nation |
| Passive Resistance | Peacefully protesting a law believed to be unjust by deliberately breaking it |
| Rosa Parks | Woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | Reaction of African Americans to the arrest of Rosa Parks; they refused to use the public transportation in the city |
| Sit-Ins | Series of protests (most famous one in Greensboro, NC) about African Americans not being served at certain restaurants and businesses |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Leader of the Civil Rights Movement who advocated for passive resistance |
| Stokely Carmichael | Follower of Martin Luther King and founder of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) |
| Malcom X | Civil Rights leader who advocated for more militant, forceful protesting; believed that integration would never work & wanted African Americans to have their own country |
| Freedom Rides | Series of protests across the south about the segregation of interstate buses |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Outlawed discrimination in any form |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Outlawed the use of grandfather clauses and literacy tests to determine who can vote |
| 24th Amendment | Outlawed poll taxes (paying to vote) |
| Black Panther Movement | Group of African Americans who were inspired by Malcom X and did not want to use passive resistance to gain civil rights |
| Freedom Summer | Campaign that signed people up to vote after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 24th Amendment were passed |
| Bloody Sunday 1965 | Resulted in the deaths of many African Americans as they marched from Selma to Birmingham, Alabama because they were refused the right to register to vote |
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