Chapter 21
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40 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Faubus | Arkansas Governor that resisted desegregation at his Capitol's Central High School. |
| Parks | Her refusal to give up her bus seat set off a bus boycott that lasted more than a year. |
| King | After leading a bus boycott he became the top civil rights leader in the US. 1964 Nobel Prize. |
| Ray | He assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis Tennessee. |
| Marshall | NAACP lawyer that challenged school segregation in front of the Supreme Court. Later a member of that court. |
| Barnett | Mississippi Governor that blocked desegregation @ "Ole Miss." |
| Eisenhower | He ordered the 101st Airborne to escort 9 black students to Central High School. |
| Johnson | Senator, Vice President, President that felt that a civil rights bill would honor John Kennedy. |
| Robinson | He crossed Major League Baseball's color line in 1947 when he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers. |
| Sirhan Sirhan | He assassinated Robert F. Kennedy. |
| Moses | He was the most influential SNCC leader, popular w/youth, worked to register voters. |
| Shuttlesworth | Reverend and civil rights leader that invited M.L. King to the "most segregated city" in the US. |
| Malcolm X | Preacher in the Nation of Islam that advocated "Black Nationalism." Was assassinated. |
| DuBois | He helped start the NAACP in 1909. |
| Meredith | He was the first African American to enroll at "Ole Miss." |
| Carmichael | Radical SNCC leader that called for Black Power! |
| R.F. Kennedy | US Attorney General that ordered Federal Marshals to protect the "Freedom Riders." |
| Linda Brown | 8 year old African American student that wanted to attend a nearby white school. |
| Watts | LA neighborhood where a race riot killed 34 people. |
| Montgomery | Alabama city where 50,000 African Americans boycotted the busses. |
| Birmingham | Alabama city where King and protestors were attacked with fire hoses and police dogs on national TV. |
| Little Rock | Arkansas city where the National Guard was called out to prevent 9 African American students from attending school. |
| Topeka | City in Kansas whose the Board of Education lost its case for segregation @ the Supreme Court. |
| Selma | A 50 mile march started in this city headed for the Alabama capitol. The marchers were attacked by State Police. |
| Washington | Site of a 200,000 person march and demonstration in support of a civil rights bill. |
| Mississippi | State where "Freedom Summer" led to the murder of three voter registration workers. |
| SCLC | Organization founded by King & other clergy working for civil rights. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin & gender. |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Ended literacy tests and allows federal officials to register voters in local districts. |
| SNCC | Organization whose goal was to involve college aged students in civil rights work. |
| 24th Amendment | Law that made the use of poll taxes illegal during voting. |
| sit ins | Most popular form of civil disobedience in and around the Nashville area. |
| NAACP | Formed in 1909 it works thru the court system to achieve greater rights for minorities. |
| CORE | Since 1942 this organization has sought change through peaceful confrontation. |
| National Urban League | Since 1911 this organization has helped African Americans find jobs and homes in the large northern US cities. |
| 1963 | John F. Kennedy is assassinated. |
| 1965 | Malcolm X is assassinated. |
| 1968 | Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated. |
| 1968 | Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated. |
| Essay | What is Black Nationalism & Black Power? Why did the radical civil rights movement draw so many followers in the late 1960's? |
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