1950s Civil Rights Vocabulary Flashcards PDF

Side1 Side2 CardColor TextColor Audio: English (US) Audio: English (US) Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or Segregation oth...

Side1 Side2 CardColor TextColor Audio: English (US) Audio: English (US) Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or Segregation other differences blue Black the act of uniting, mixing or bringing together, Integration especially people of different races blue Black Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks Jim Crow Laws from whites blue Black A nonviolent, public refusal to obey allegedly unjust Civil Disobedience laws. blue Black A group's refusal to buy products or services from a Boycott business to protest against its policies. blue Black National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. An organization that fought for the NAACP rights of African Americans yellow Black 1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public Brown v. Board of Education (1954) schools desegregated. purple Black a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) blacks and whites were equal purple Black A 1954 Supreme Court decision that extended protection against discrimination to Hispanics or Hernandez v. Texas (1954) Mexican Americans. purple Black First person to stand up for her rights on a bus nine months before Rosa Parks she was 15 years old at Claudette Colvin the time. red Black United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Rosa Parks AL and triggered the national civil rights movement. red Black Nonviolent leader of the civil rights movement and founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Conference red Black Side1 Side2 CardColor TextColor Audio: English (US) Audio: English (US) Civil rights organization formed in 1957 by Dr. SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) Martin Luther King Jr., and Rev. Ralph Abernathy yellow Black American civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. A tireless Thurgood Marshall advocate for the rights of minorities and the poor. red Black A group of students who were enrolled in a white Little Rock 9 high school on the basis of being black purple Black 14 yr old African American who was murdered for allegedly whistling toward a white woman. His Emmett Till murderers were found not guilty red Black Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the 14th Amendment laws blue Black A march that was attempted three times to protest voting rights, with many peaceful demonstrators injured and killed. Led by MLK. Resulted in Voting Selma Marches Rights Act. purple Black Prince Edward County, Virginia School that shut down rather than desegregate purple Black peaceful demonstration to promote Civil Rights and economic equality for African Americans. I have a dream speech was given here by Martin Luther King March on Washington jr. purple Black a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African Freedom Summer American voters as possible in Mississippi purple Black