Civil Rights Movements Flashcards
Grade 12 · Social Studies · Flashcards
Key people, events, laws, and concepts from the civil rights movements that transformed American society.
Flashcards
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Landmark law banning discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in employment and public accommodations.
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Banned discriminatory voting barriers like literacy tests; dramatically expanded Black voter registration in the South.
- Jim Crow Laws
- State and local laws that enforced racial segregation throughout the South from the 1870s to the mid-1960s.
- Nonviolent Resistance
- A strategy of peaceful protest and civil disobedience to demand change without using violence, even when facing violent opposition.
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
- Supreme Court ruling that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, overturning 'separate but equal.'
- Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-56)
- 381-day boycott of Montgomery, AL buses that ended bus segregation and launched Dr. King as a national leader.
- Civil Disobedience
- Deliberately and openly breaking an unjust law to protest it and pressure change; central strategy of the civil rights movement.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- Leader of the American civil rights movement; advocated nonviolent resistance; delivered 'I Have a Dream' speech; assassinated 1968.
- Thurgood Marshall
- NAACP attorney who won Brown v. Board of Education; first Black Supreme Court Justice (1967).
- Stonewall Riots (1969)
- Uprising at the Stonewall Inn in NYC when LGBTQ+ patrons resisted a police raid; launched the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.
- Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)
- Federal law prohibiting discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, public services, and accommodations.
- Intersectionality
- The concept that people experience overlapping, compounding forms of discrimination based on race, gender, class, and other identities simultaneously.
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