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Chapter 18 The Civil Rights Movement Study online at quizlet.com/_1pftrv 1. 24th 5. Civil Rights Amendment Act 1957 Prohibited the use poll tax for elections. 2. Birmingham Campaign Legislation to investigate violations of civil rights and voting rights. It lacked any real power. First Civil Rights bill passed by Congress since the Civil War. 6. Civil Rights Act 1964 Civil rights effort to desegregate Birmingham, AL, where shocking images of police brutality prompted Kennedy to push for a federal civil rights act. Children's March 3. Black Panthers Legislation that banned segregation in businesses and places open to public (restaurants & public schools) and prohibited racial and gender discrimination in employment. 7. de jure and de facto segregation policies Militant civil rights group dedicated to armed self-defense, racial pride, and inner-city renewal. 4. Brown v De jure is segregation by law and de facto is Board of segregation by custom or tradition. Education of Topeka, Kansas Supreme Court decision that segregated schools violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment 8. Freedom 11. Lunch Rides counter sit- down strikes in OKC and elsewhere An interstate bus journey by black and white activists who entered segregated bus facilities together throughout the South to ensure federal law was followed. They meet violent resistance along journey. Nonviolent demonstrations where civil rights protesters employed the tactic of civil 9. Freedom disobedience to occupy seats at white-only Summer counters. On August 19, 1958, school teacher Clara Luper and thirteen members of the Oklahoma City NAACP Youth Council went to the whites-only lunch counter at the Katz Drug Store in downtown Oklahoma City. 12. Malcolm X In 1964, multi pronged attack on white supremacy in Mississippi that included a voter registration drive and the creation of Freedom Schools. 10. Little Rock "Central High School" Black Muslim who argued for separation, not integration. He changed his views, but was assassinated in 1965. Nine black teenagers who integrated Central High 13. March on School in 1957 and became the focus of a national Washington crisis that required the intervention of federal troops to resolve. In 1963, massive demonstration in the nation's capital that demanded passage of a federal civil rights act and more economic opportunities. The place where MLK Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream Speech". 14. Martin 18. Stokley Luther King, Carmichael/Black Jr./SCLC Power Stokley Carmichael was a SNCC Leader Black Power was a call for blacks to unite politically and economically in black-only Civil rights organization founded by Martin Luther organizations to protect their racial King Jr. that used black churches to devise a new identity as they fought for equality. nonviolent strategy of direct action. 19. Thurgood 15. Montgomery Marshall Bus Boycott/Rosa Parks He was part of the NAACP that used the Rosa Parks was a NAACP member who sparked the law to fight segregation. He helped boycott for refusing to move to the back of the bus overturn separate but equal by winning because of her race. A year long bus boycott that the Brown v. B.O.E. brought a new leader, Martin Luther King Jr., and a He was the first African American to new strategy of nonviolent protest to the forefront of serve as Justice on the Supreme Court. the Civil Rights movement. 20. Voting Rights of 16. Nation of 1965 Islam It was an African American sect that rejected integration as the path to salvation for the black community and instead wanted to establish a separate black nation. 17. SNCC Legislation that prohibited literacy tests and poll taxes, plus authorized the use of federal registrars to register voters if states failed to respect the Fifteenth Amendment. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Student-run civil rights organization founded in 1960..