| A | B |
|---|
| Segregation | forced separation of different races |
| Desegregation | Elimination of laws or practices that separate people of different races |
| Civil Rights | The rights to a full, legal, social and economic equality |
| Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 | Court Case, separate but equal access to public facilities |
| Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 | Court Case decision that ended segregation in public facilities |
| Little Rock Nine contributed: | 1957: Af. Am. students integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Rosa Parks, 1955: | Af. Am. woman who refused to give up her bus seat to a white man and was arrested |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955-56: | Prompted by Rosa Parks; boycott of all Af. Am. to ride the public buses, lasted for over a year, hurt bus companies, financially |
| Sit-ins: | demonstrations where protesters sat down and refused to leave public places to protest segregation |
| Freedom Riders, 1961: | riders rode from Wash to New Orlean to convince Kennedy to enforce the ruling against segregation in bus stations |
| Children's Marches 1963: | Birmingham, AL: hundreds of children arrested who marched to protest segregation |
| March on Washington, 1963: | Marched to support new Civil Rights bill; wanted to pressure passage; 3 hrs of speeches, incl "I Have a Dream" |
| Dr. Martin Luther King | "I have a Dream" speech; most famous of 3 hrs of speeches, 250,000 marchers in Wash |
| Voter Registration Drive | 1,000 volunteers registered voters in the south to push Voting Rights Act for Af. Am. |
| Civil Rts Act 1964: | banned segregation in public places, outlawed discrimination at work |
| Voting Rights Act 1965: | Gave federal gov't new rights to protect Af. Am. voting rights |
| Dr. Martin Luther King: | became a leader during Montgomery Bus Boycott, social justice, non-violent approach, good speaker |
| Assassinated Aug. 4, 1968 | Dr. MLK |
| Malcolm X | Muslim, became a radical, believed in violence, black nationalism and separatism |
| Malcolm X | after trip to Mecca, changed to non-violent approach and that races could co-exist peacefully |
| "I have a Dream" speech | Dr. MLK, delivered at March on Washington; Aug. 3, 1963 |
| Sit-Ins, Freedom Riders: | sometimes turned violent |
