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maxush-MovementBegin
maxush-The Movement Begins
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Dec. 1955 refused to give up seat on a bus in Montgomery, Al. Later found guilty and fined $10 | Rosa Parks |
| people stopped riding the buses in Montgomery as a protest to law that Rosa Parks was arrested for violating | boycott |
| doctrine of segregated facilities as long as they are equal established in 1896, the case of Plessy v. Ferguson | seperate but equal |
| Series of laws passed in the South after reconstruction establishing legal segregation | Jim Crow laws |
| segregation by custom or tradition, found in the north | defacto segregation |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, created in early 1900’s, supported cases against segregation | NAACP |
| movement north had led to voting rights and politicians willing to listen to large numbers of new constituents | Great Migration |
| Congress of Racial Equality, used sit-ins to successfully to, integrate restaurants, theatres, and other public facilities in many northern cities | CORE |
| form of protest against segregation and discrimination, protestors take seats in facility knowing that they will not be served, deprives business of customers | sit-in |
| leads the NAACP case against school segregation, later would become first African American Supreme Court Justice | Thurgood Marshall |
| African American girl not allowed to attend neighborhood school because of her race in Topeka, Kansas | Linda Brown |
| Linda Brown’s 1954 case that reached the Supreme Court, court ruled segregation of public schools was unconstitutional and violated the 14th amendment, next year court ruled that integration should take place “with all deliberate speed” | Brown v. Board of Education Topeka, KS |
| statement of support for southern states resisting integration order, signed by all but 3 members of Congress from the South (LBJ), states resisted by pupil assignment laws | Southern Manifesto |
| chosen to lead the Montgomery improvement Association’s boycott of city buses, followed the teachings of Mohandis Ghandi, advocated the nonviolent resistance techniques, boycott lasts for over 1 year, organizes alternative modes of transportation | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Southern Christian Leadership Conference, created to challenge segregation in public accommodations across the country, used the tactics gained in Montgomery, MLK leader | SCLC |
| school board decides to integrate schools gradually, first step would be to allow nine African American students into Central High School, prevented from attending | Little Rock Nine |
| sends national guard troops to “protect” the school from violence | Orval Faubus |
| orders National Guard removed, violence breaks out, sends federal troops to escort “nine” to class, remain for school year, next year no school in Little Rock | Dwight Eisenhower |
| Protects the right to vote of African Americans | Civil Rights Act 1957 |
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