Chapter 18 The Civil Rights Movement
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1.
24th
Amendment
5.
Civil Rights
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
Board of
Education of
Topeka,
Kansas
De jure is segregation by law and de facto is
segregation by custom or tradition.
Supreme Court decision that segregated
schools violated the equal protection clause of
the Fourteenth Amendment
8.
Freedom
Rides
11.
Lunch
counter sitdown
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.
9.
Nonviolent demonstrations where civil rights
protesters employed the tactic of civil
disobedience to occupy seats at white-only
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.
Freedom
Summer
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
School in 1957 and became the focus of a national
crisis that required the intervention of federal
troops to resolve.
13.
March on
Washington
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
Luther King,
Jr./SCLC
18.
Civil rights organization founded by Martin Luther
King Jr. that used black churches to devise a new
nonviolent strategy of direct action.
19.
15.
16.
Montgomery
Bus
Boycott/Rosa
Parks
Nation of
Islam
Stokley
Carmichael/Black
Power
Stokley Carmichael was a SNCC Leader
Black Power was a call for blacks to unite
politically and economically in black-only
organizations to protect their racial
identity as they fought for equality.
Thurgood
Marshall
Rosa Parks was a NAACP member who sparked the
boycott for refusing to move to the back of the bus
because of her race. A year long bus boycott that
brought a new leader, Martin Luther King Jr., and a
new strategy of nonviolent protest to the forefront of
the Civil Rights movement.
20. Voting Rights of
1965
He was part of the NAACP that used the
law to fight segregation. He helped
overturn separate but equal by winning
the Brown v. B.O.E.
He was the first African American to
serve as Justice on the Supreme Court.
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.
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.
SNCC
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Student-run civil rights organization founded in 1960.