A | B |
Defacto Segregation | segregation is by practice, custom, or heritage |
Dejure Segregation | Segregation by law |
Brown v. Board of Education | Segregation in public schools was banned |
Little Rock Nine | National Guard brought in to escort AA schools into Central High. |
James Meredith | Banned from Ole Miss, riot, Kennedy sent marshalls |
University of Alabama | Gov. Wallace stood in the door way to stop AA's from entering. |
Rosa Parks | Rode in the front of the bus to get arrested. |
Montgomery Improvement Assoc. | Formed by NAACP-MLK to lead bus boycott. |
Montgomery Bus Boycott | AA refused to ride the bus. |
Freedom Riders | Rode buses to attract attention to segregation |
March on Washington '63 | MLK gave his I have a Dream Speach. |
Letters from Birmingham Jail | MLK encourage no violence but keep protesting. |
March on Selma | Freedom march Police met them at Pettis Bridge. |
Bloody Sunday | Violence at Pettis Bridge |
Lyndon B. Johnson | Pres. signed Civil Rights Act |
NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. |
24th Amendment | Can't charge a poll tax. |
Freedom Summer | Wanted to get AA registere to vote. |
Voting Rights Act of '65 | Suspended literacy test to vote |
Nation of Islam | Black Muslims violent wanted separation. |
Malcom X | Black minister would use any means necessary. |
Malcom X - Traitor | Assassinated by black muslims |
Black Power | Stockley Carmichael-Pride in AA heritage |
Black Panthers | Racial militant civil rights organization |
James Earl Ray | killed MLK |
George Wallace | Gov. of Alabama anti segregation |
Fannie Lou Hamer | Gave a speeh at Democratic Convention for Civil Rights |