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Jim Crow laws
the laws that made segregation legal in the south. https://www.britannica.com/event/Jim-Crow-law
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NAACP
A very powerful civil rights organization that challenged segregation through court.
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Malcolm X
African American Muslim minister and civil rights activist. Date below is his born date. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nonviolent activist for the civil rights movement. -
Core
congress of racial equality. had an important role in the civil rights movement for African Americans. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Ruled that segregation in schools was unconstitutional. -
SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, civil rights organization for African Americans. -
Little Rock Nine
A group of nine African-American students that were the first African-American's to go to the public school. Very controversial, troops had to be sent in to protect the nine. -
Greensboro Woolworth Sit-ins
Four African-American men sat down in a segregated diner and requested service, they were turned down but refused to leave and make a stand.
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SNCC
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. An organization that trained students how to hold productive non-violent protests. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee -
JFK role in Civil Rights Movement
Proposed a civil rights bill, was assassinated before it was made. -
James Meredith and Ole Miss
Segregationists were protesting the enrollment of student, James Meredith, into Ole Miss because he was African American. -
Lyndon B Johnson's role in the civil rights movement
Created the Civil rights Act which prohibited any public signs of discrimination. -
24th amendment
Abolition of poll taxes. -
Civil rights act of 1964
Law that prohibited discrimination based on race, gender, religion, etc. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Prohibited racial discrimination in voting. -
Black Panthers and Huey Newton
The Black Panther Party was a political group made by Huey Newton and another guy to protect African Americans from brutality, that from police specifically. -
Black Power and Stokely Carmichael
Carmichael, chairman of the SNCC, popularized the term and philosophy of ¨Black Power.¨ -
Kerner Commission
The national advisory commission on civil dsorders, later named Kerner after its chairman. -
Assassination of MLK Jr.
Assassinated outside a hotel he was staying in in Memphis, TN
