Civil Rights for African-Americans, Women(Ch. 23.2) and Latin-Americans/Native Americans(Ch. 23.1) -
African Americans- Civil rights movement. helped african americans vote and not be segregated against. NAACP was involved...
NAACP- national assocication for the advancement of colored people. eliminate discrimination against other races.
Martin Luther King Jr.- leader in the civil rights movement. many people did not think to highly of him. assassinated. we remember him on martin luther king day. " i have a dream" speech.
Malcolm X- he gave many speeches and influenced tons of people. accused of preaching racism. he tried to create equal rights for everyone.
Jackie Robinson- first african american to play baseball. played for the dodgers. he challenged/ended the segregation in baseball.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka -paved the way for the civil rights movement. said the separate public schools for blacks and whites was unconstitutional.
De-segregating the US Military -truman signed and ended the segregation in the military. blacks were still being discriminated against though.
Little Rock 9 -Little Rock Central Highschool enrolled nine black african americans. sad thing was they had to have a guard follow them so nobody would say racist things to them.
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott -Rosa Parks is a very brave african american who sat in the back of the bus( that was only for whites) and she was told to move but stood her ground. she was arrested and had to go to trial. From this, the ruling that Montgomery's segregated buses were unconstitutioinal.
Greensboro sit-ins -African-American college kids sat a lunch spots reserved for whites. Even though they were beat, the students still refused to move. This started similar sit-ins across the country and led to non-segregated lunch counters.
Freedom Rides -CORE had freedom rides that would challenge the segregation on interstates.
Birmingham, Alabama—1963- kids were at sunday school. a man placed a bomb underneath the steps. it went off at 10:22 killing four girls and injuring 23 others.
Mississippi Summer Project( Freedom Summer project) -wanted to register as many african american voters as possible. to help support the black population, they set up freedom school and houses throughout mississippi.
Selma, Alabama—1965-many of the campaigns were held. Many protesters were killed and MLK led a movement of about 1000 protesters. Overtime, alomost 25,000 people had joined in this march.
Voting Rights Act of 1965 -wanted to eliminate discrimination in the voting systems and stop states from allowing this.
Civil Rights Act of 1964-outlawed major forms of discrimination of blacks and women.
Stokely Carmichael-leader of the black panthers group. also was very influencial during the civil rights movement. started the key term "black power".
Black Panthers-VERY influencial. if they did not have this, america could be very racist today. it altered americans views. it was an african american party who promoted non-discriminatory actions.
Affirmative action-people who were discriminated against would be offered jobs at like schools and work. goverment wanted to end and prevent discrimination.
Jesse Jackson-very influencial also. founded PUSH and rainbow.
i didnt know there were so many people who tried to end discrimination. The only one i knew about was rosa parks and jackie robinson. i think its cool how they stood up for what they believed in. especially those kids at lunch. they went through beatings and still stayed strong.
Sources:
http://countrystudies.us/united-states/history-133.htm
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/NAACP.htm
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