Let’s review learning about the Civil Rights Movement!

People: Know who these people were and how each of them affected the Civil Rights Movement.

• Booker T. Washington • Emmett Till • W.E.B. Du Bois • Martin Luther King, Jr. • Elijah Muhammad • The “Little Rock Nine” • A. Philip Randolph • Orval Faubus • Harry Truman • Freedom Riders • Branch Rickey • James Meredith • Jackie Robinson • Medgar Evers • Kenneth Clark • Malcolm X. • Thurgood Marshall • Stokley Carmichael

Events: Know the chronology of each of the following events as well as their significance to the Civil Rights Movement. Be prepared to write about them, including information such as to what happened, why it happened, where it happened, who were the people involved in it, and how it affected the Movement.

• the murder of Emmett Till • Mississippi Freedom Summer • the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing • the Selma March (Bloody Sunday) • the integration of Little Rock Central HS • the Freedom Rides • Brown v. the Board of Education • the Montgomery bus boycotts • Jackie Robinson breaks baseball’s color-barrier • the Sit-Ins • the Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Watts, Newark, and Detroit Riots • the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Ideas and Actions: Be familiar with the following key terms, their definitions, and how they relate to the Movement. Know examples of each. Explain how these ideas and actions affected one another and the Movement overall.

• civil disobedience • Jim Crow • boycott • militancy • grassroots • “black power” • lynching • black nationalism • nonviolent direct action • federalism (a.k.a. the balance of power • gradualism between the federal government and state • disfranchisement governments)