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Booker T Washington 'Atlanta Compromise'
Booker spoke before a predominately white audience at a Cotton State and International Exposition in Atlanta -
Plessy v Ferguson 'Jim Crow Stories'
A law which requires that all railways provide separate cars be equal for blacks and whites -
Franklin D Roosevelt
Tried to issue an executive order to help blacks fight in the was but it was never a law and since everyone was in the was a lot of jobs opened for blacks to work -
CORE Congress of Racial Equality
Organization that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement -
Jackie Robinson
Emerged as an inspiring figure in the civil rights movement when he became the first black man to play major league baseball in the 20th century -
Harry Truman 'Desegragation'
Desegragated the U.S. Armed Forces in 1948 -
Septima Clark
Gave a speech about the SNCC -
Linda Brown 'Brown v. Board of Education'
Case argued by attorney Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision that the "separate but equal" doctrine was unconstitutional because it violated the 14th Amendment rights by separating students solely on the classification of the color of their skins -
Rosa Parks
Parks sat on a bus after along day of work because she was tired. She was then ask to move by a caucasian passenger and refused to move. The bus driver then got out of his seat and asked her to move and she refused again. She was then taken away by the police and put in jail. -
Bear Bryant
Legendary coach in the South who was facing a pair of ethic svandals that threatened his career -
Elizabeth Eckford 'Desegregation
Tried to attend Central Hugh School only to be repeatedly rebuffed by soldiers from Arkansas National Guard -
Dwight Eisenhower
Signed civil rights act of 1957 into law -
NAACP
Nations oldest largest and most widely recognized grass-roots based on civil rights organization -
SNCC 'Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee'
Emergence as a force in the southern civil rights movements came largely through the involvement of students -
Fannie Lou Hamer Democratic National Convention
Became a SNCC field secretary and advocated voting rights -
Anne Moody
Helped organize racial equalities and participated in a sit in -
Bull Conner Desegregation
Connor was a throwback to times that had passed and was an unwanted symbol of hard line Southern Racism -
John F Kennedy
Gave a speech in Alabama to help King -
Martin Luther King Jr. March on Washington
Birmingham Alabama King guided peaceful mass demonstration that the white police force countered with police dogs and fire hoses creating a controversy which newspaper headlines the world. He gave his 'I Have a Dream' speech. -
SCLC
Civil Rights are essential to democracy and segregation must end -
Lyndon Johnson
Called for immediate passage of Civil Right legislation -
James Meredith
First black to attend University of Mississippi -
Black Muslims
Movement in the legal dictionary -
George Wallace 'Black Power Era'
Pres Johnson commanded govenor wallace to protect Selma march but he refused claiming the state was 'finacially unable' to do so. Became the most prominent national icon segragationist resistance to the civil rights movement -
Black Panthers
Dismantled the Jim Crow system of Racial caste -
KKK
After WWII the name Ku Klux Klan was used by numerous groups throughout the South who opposed the civil rights movement and desegregation 1960s -
Malcolm X 'Black Power'
Rejected the civil rights movement's stance on nonviolence and preached black people through his devotion to the Nation of Islam
