Civil Rights
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US History civil rights unit
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Mose Wright | emmit till's uncle testified at trial and named killers |
| Emmet Till | killed for speaking to a white woman |
| E.D. Nixon | - An African American civil rights leader who helped organizes the Montgomery Bus Boycott. - served as president of his local group of the NAACP |
| Linda Brown | subject of brown vs. board of education |
| Fred Shuttleworth | - member of the SCLC |
| Ben West | -mayor of nashville |
| Ralph Abernathy | ... |
| Adam Clayton Powell | - The first African -American elected to congress from New York - He became chairman of the powerful Education and Labor Committee |
| Dr. Anderson | - The first African American member of the board of trustees for the American Osteopathic Association. - Founder of the Albany movement |
| Daisy Bates | - published the Arkansas State Press -Guided the little Rock nine during the attempt at integration |
| James Meredith | - The first black student at the University of Mississippi |
| Ross Barnett | - the governor of Mississippi from 1960 -1964 |
| John Lewis | - student in the Nashville sit -ins |
| Ernest Green | - a member of the little rock nine |
| Orval Fabus | - Governor of Arkansas - Spoke against integration for fear of losing his voters |
| James Lawson | - A teacher at Fisk - Taught non-violence |
| Autherine Lucy | The first black student to attend the University of Alabama |
| Vivian Moore | - one of the two African American students who were blocked from entering the University of Alabama by George Wallace, the governor of Alabama |
| Laurie Pritchett | - Chief of police in Albany Georgia |
| George Wallace | - the govener of alabama |
| Bull Connor | - The commissioner for public safety in Birmingham Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. - He was responsible for blasting people with fire hoses during riots and police attack dogs |
| Charles Sherrood | "Pressure, pressure, pressure."- SNCC organizer Charles Sherrod |
| Andrew Young | - Mayor of Atlanta - Congressman from the 5th district - A member of the SCLC |
| A. Phillip Randolph | - The founder of the March on Washington |
| Stokely Charmichael | - A leader of SNCC - Popularized the term "black power" |
| Bayard Rustin | - Organized the March on Washington - Believed non-violence |
| Medger Evers | - He was murdered by the White Citizens Council member Byron De La Beck in his driveway - A field secretary for the NAACP |
| Fannie Lou Hamer | - A member of SNCC - Helped organized the Summer of Freedom |
| C.T. Vivian | - A member of the SCLC - A minister -helped organize the Selma march |
| Jim Clark | - the sheriff of Selma during the Selma march - Punched C.T. Vivian |
| James Reeb | - A white preacher in Selma who was killed with a baseball bat by segregationists while he was marching for civil rights |
| Jimmie Lee Jackson | Was killed in a march trying to protect his mother.. |
| Governer Patterson | "You can't guarantee the safety of a fool."- Gov. Ben Patterson (Alabama) |
| RFK | - Robert F. Kennedy - Brother of JFK - Believed in following the law |
| Joseph Smitherman | - The mayor of Selma - "Martin Luther Coon"- Mayor Joseph Smitherman (Selma) |
| Roy Wilkins | -led the NAACP |
| Schwerner, Goodman , and Cheney | - Were imprisoned - After being let out they were kidnapped and murdered |
| Earl Warren | - Chief justice of the Supreme Court - Chief justice in the Brown Vs. Board of Education |
| Dave Dennis | - He gave the eulogy at Cheney's funeral and his speech became very impassioned |
| James Farmer | - A founder of CORE |
| Montgomery Improvment Association | - Started the Montgomery bus boycott - MLK was part of it - Formed by black ministers and community leaders |
| White Citizen's council | The political arm of the Ku Klux Klan |
| Gradualists | The belief in reaching goals through slow development |
| Doctrine of interposition | allowed states to impose their jurisdiction over federal jurisdiction |
| passive resistannce | - non- violent resistance |
| NAACP | National Association of Colored Peoples - Early fighter of segregation |
| SCLC | - Southern Christian Leadership Company - Involved in the March on Washington and the March from Selma - Birmingham campaign |
| CORE | Congress of Racial equality - Involved in disintegrating schools - Involved in the March on Washington |
| SNCC | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - Involved in voter registration - Sit-ins and freedom rides |
| MFDP | Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party - Created with help from SNCC in an attempt to topple the monopoly of the mostly white US Democratic party |
| Night Riders | the Ku Klux Klan |
| Freedom Riders | rode interstate buses into the segregated United States |
| Citizen council | The political arm of the Ku Klux Klan |
| project c | C is for confrontation to integrate Birmingham |
| Bloody Sunday | - The first attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery - Took place at the Pettus Bridge when the Alabama State police attacked the 600 marchers |
| Albany Movement | - Showed the importance of mobile community - Put pressure on the government - Attempt to fill jails |
| Bombingham | when there were frequent attacks on Birmingham |
| Brown vs. Board of education | - Declared that laws that segregated schools illegal |
| Nashville sit-ins | - Sit-ins at lunch tables in Nashville |
| March on Washington | - A large political rally for civil rights - Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his I Have A Dream Speech |
| 16th street baptist church bombing | four little girls were killed after the 16th street church was bombed |
| battle of ole miss | A gun fight that broke out over James Meredith |
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