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Civil Rights Terms I
Terms from the 1950's and 1960's
Defintion | Answer |
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Arrested for not giving up her bus seat to a white man; prompted the Montgomery Bus Boycott. | Rosa Parks |
First African-American Supreme Court Justice. | Thurgood Marshall |
Process of bringing people of different races together. | Integration |
Civil rights leader who opposed discrimination against African-Americans by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations; was assassinated in Memphis, TN. | Martin Luther King, jr. |
Opposing a law one considers unjust by peacefully disobeying it and accepting the punishment. | Civil Disobedience |
Protest in which people sit in a place and refuse to move until their demands are met. | Sit In |
African-American leader and supporter of the Nation of Islam; supported black separatism, black pride, and the use of violence for self-protection. | Malcom X |
A policy to hire and promote more minorities and women. | Affirmative Action |
Organization founded in 1909 to work for racial equality. | NAACP |
Supreme Court case which led to the eventual desegregation of schools in 1954. | Brown v. Board of Education |
Outlawed discrimination in employment on the basis of race, sex, or religion. | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences. | Segregation |
Treating members of different races, religions, ethnic groups differently. | Discrimination |
Civil rights campaign in which African-American and white protesters traveled by bus through the South to desegregate bus stations. | Freedom Rides |
Protests in 1955-1956 by African-Americans against racial segregation in bus system of Montgomery, Alabama. | Montgomery Bus Boycott |
Nine African-American students who would be admitted to a white school after integration ruling. | Little Rock Nine |
Limited voting rights of African-Americans, such as literacy tests, the grandfather clause, and poll taxes. | Jim Crow Laws |
1896 Supreme Court ruling that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as the facilities were equal ("separate but equal"). | Plessy v. Ferguson |
An opinion or strong feeling formed without careful thought or regard to the facts. | Prejudice |
Civil rights law that banned literacy tests and other practices that discouraged African-Americans from voting. | Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
14-year old Chicago boy who was murdered in Mississippi after whistling at white woman. | Emmett Till |
A refusal to buy or use goods and services. | Boycott |
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court when Brown v. Board of Education was ruled upon. | Earl Warren |
Governor of California who signed a desegregation order in his state. | Earl Warren |
Labor Director for the NAACP, pushed labor unions and Hollywood to desegregate and give real opportunities to advance for African Americans | Herbert Hill |
Governor of Arkansas who did not want integration in public schools | Orval Faubus |
NAACP legal counsel who presented the Brown vs Board of Education case and then later became the first African American Supreme Court Justice | Thurgood Marshall |
"Law that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin" | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
First African-American MLB player. | Jackie Robinson |
A student who was part of the Little Rock 9 attending Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas and had to walk through the hostile white crowd by herself | Elizabeth Eckford |
President in 1957 who sent troops into Arkansas to suppress mobs in the Central High School desegregation issue | Dwight D Eisenhower |
Leader of the Nation of Islam for many years. | Elijah Muhammad |
This person's arrest instigated the Montgomery Bus Boycott | Rosa Parks |
Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and now a US Representative from GA | John Lewis |
President in 1960 who began civil rights initiatives and played a role with student who wanted to enroll in the University of Mississippi in 1962 | John F Kennedy |