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Jim Crow Laws
These laws were used to segregate blacks and whites and is one of the things the civil rights movement wanted to rid. -
NAACP
The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) was founded to work against violence and segregation that African Americans endured. -
Malcolm X
Civil rights that believed that equality was needed even if it meant violence in the process. Main spokesperson for the Nation of Islam. -
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Born in 1929 and was the leader of SCLC. the most popular and influential civil rights and equality leader the world has ever known. -
Black power and Stokely Carmicheal
A civil rights activist that believed in violence tactics and black power. As a leader of SNCC he had influence on the civil rights movement. -
The Black Panthers and Huey Newton
Co-founded the Black Panther party. The Black Panthers was violent but clashed with the police for police brutality. -
CORE
CORE ( Congress of Racial Equality) was founded during the civil rights organizations trying to desegregate public areas. -
Brown v. Board of Education
The Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education was a case that dealt with segregation in the school system and in May 14, 1954 it was ruled that public schools should be desegregated. -
SCLC
The SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) is a civil rights movement that organized specific movements -
Little Rock Nine
Nine African Americans were banned from entering a school in Arkansas and later troops were sent to help them get into school. -
Greensboro Woolworth Sit-in
Four college students sat at the counter at a Woolworth's restaurant and was told to leave but they didn't. This turned into a peaceful protest for racial equality. -
SNCC
The SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) was created in 1960 to help do nonviolent acts to stop segregation. -
John F. Kennedy's Role in the Civil Rights Movement
Very popular president for the African American voters. He brought African Americans to the administration and even though he was slow to help in the civil rights movement he helped James Meredith and the Little Rock Nine. He enforced civil equality too. -
24th Amendment
Was passed in August, 1962 which banned the use of poll taxes. The poll tax was expensive and was hard to pay for low-income families including African Americans. -
James Meredith and Ole Miss
James Meredith tried to enroll at the University of Mississippi but riots started leaving people dead. -
Lyndon B. Johnson's Role in the Civil Rights Movement
He filled in for JFK after the assassination and the Voting rights act and Fair Housing act was passed during his presidency. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This ended segregation in public and the workplace. Super beneficial for the civil rights movement. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Made it easier for African Americans to vote because no literacy test and federal oversight. -
Kerner Commission
Acknowledged that white racism caused riots and that something needed to be changed. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
King was shot by James Earl Ray at a motel. He was 39 years old and when he was killed people took the assassination to heart and became radicalized.
