Civil Rights Review for Test
Rosa Parks is arrested and MLK leads a citywide strike to support her.
1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott
MLK makes his “I Have a Dream Speech”
1963 March on Washington
Allowed Native Americans to make laws on reservations
Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968
This involved bringing in the federal troops in order to integrate the school.
1957 Little Rock Nine
Provided health & medical assistance to low-income families
Medicaid
An organization that set up protests for more rights for Native Americans
American Indian Movement
Provided health insurance for all elderly people; it was financed through social security
Medicare
MLK is arrested trying to protest for integration of public facilities
1963 Protest in Birmingham Alabama
This claimed that separate but equal is not legal thus schools integrated
1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
This forced restaurants to serve blacks & whites equally
1960 Greensboro Sit-In
The 1 st representative to Congress of Puerto Rican origin
Herman Badillo
Onetime leader of the SNCC who promoted the idea of Black Power
Stokely Carmichael
A violent group that was formed to fight for change
` Black Panther Party
This student was kicked out of Little Rock High School for pouring chili on another student
Minnie Brown
Civil Rights leader who was assassinated in April of 1968 bringing an end to the movement
Martin Luther King Jr.
Leader of the Nation of Islam who supported segregation
Malcolm X
First woman Supreme Court Justice
Sandra Day O’Connor
The first African American to enroll & attend the University of Mississippi.
James Meredith
Leader of the United Farm Workers who fought for workers’ rights
Cesar Chavez
Tested the enforcement of the Supreme Court’s desegregation of interstate buses ruling
Freedom Riders
An organization started by MLK & 60 other ministers
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Assisted African Americans in their struggles by using the court systems
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Refused to give up bus seat to a white person which leads to boycott of buses
Rosa Parks
He called out the Arkansas National Guard to keep African Americans out of Central High School
Governor Orval Faubus
A peaceful rally, attended by over 200,000 people to support the civil rights bill
March on Washington
Organization founded by James Farmer & George Houser that carried out protests against public places that refused to admit or serve African Americans
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Was the lawyer who tried the Brown case for desegregation of schools
Thurgood Marshall
An attempt by civil rights workers to get African Americans registered to vote
Freedom Summer
Missed the bus and attempted to enter Central High School by herself
Elizabeth Eckford
The first African American student to ever graduate from Little Rock High School
Ernest Green
This banned discrimination in public
1964 Civil Rights Act
Name given to Kennedy’s social reform plan
New Frontier
The man charged with assassinating President Kennedy on November 22, 1963
Lee Harvey Oswald
This was a failed attempt at granting women Constitutional equality
Equal Rights Amendment
Fought for segragation & wanted to create a “Black America”
Nation of Islam
LBJ’s plan to: reduce poverty, promote equality, improve education, & rebuild cities
Great Society
Fought to get Latinos elected to public office
La Raza Unida
Program that focused on helping people that lived below the poverty line
War on Poverty
This banned all literacy tests & used federal registrars to overlook the state workers
1965 Voting Act
This had one of the greatest impact on the civil rights movement
The Television