Civil Rights for African-Americans, Women(Ch. 23.2)
They were able to vote and got to school and segegration was no longer around as much
NAACP
NAtinaol Association for the Advancment of Colored People was formed in 1909 was used to make sure the political educational social and economic equaity of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred
Martin Luther King Jr.
An African America civil right activiste who gave the speech I Had a Dream and was killed
Malcolm X
born may 19 1925 in Omaha Nebraska, He was an African American Muslim Minester a public speaker and human rights activist,
Jackie Robinson
He was the first African American in Major League Baseball.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
When the supreme court declared that segeregation in public schools was uncostitutional. 1954
De-segregating the US Military
in 1948 Truman orederd the intergatration on the armed forces
Little Rock 9
A group of african americans who enrolled in Little Rock Central HighSchool and the natinol gaurd in Arkansa would not let them in to school and the Brown v Board of Education of Topeka came about
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
she was and african American who would not give up her spot on a bus to a white man and she was arressted blacks after that stopped using the bus and until they got their rights
Greensboro sit-ins
Series of non violent protests that led to Woolworths Derpartment store chain thus reversing its policy of racial segegration
Freedom Rides
people who rode public trasnportation to the southern states to test the Surpreme court
Birmingham, Alabama—1963
16th street baptist church bombing The explosiion killed four little girls at the church
Mississippi Summer Project( Freedom Summer project)
The attempt to register as many possible African american voters in missispi
Selma, Alabama—1965
March 7 Bloody Sunday 600 civil rightest marchers attacked by local and state police this was the first march the second march was on march 9 and the third march 21 the third march made it 51 miles and lasted five days
Voting Rights Act of 1965
out lawed discrimination on any race or color to vote in america
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Out lawed major forms of discrimination on blacks and women inculding segregation and ended voter resistration requriments
Stokely Carmichael
was a black righst activties who rose to as a leader odf the student nonviolent coordinatating committe
Black Panthers
african american revoutionary leftist organzation. It was active in the US from 1966 until 1982
Affirmative action
polices that take factors inculding race color religion gender or national origin into consideration to benifit and uderrepresented group
Jesse Jackson
Was an American civil right activist and baptist minister
wikiipedia for all of them
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