Civil Rights Movement Flashcards
Grade 8 · Social Studies · Flashcards
Key people, events, and legislation of the American Civil Rights Movement for Grade 8.
Flashcards
- Rosa Parks
- NAACP activist whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-56)
- 381-day boycott of Montgomery city buses that ended bus segregation — launched Dr. King nationally
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- Leader of the Civil Rights Movement who advocated nonviolent direct action; assassinated April 4, 1968
- Nonviolent Direct Action
- Strategy of peaceful protest — sit-ins, marches, boycotts — to challenge injustice without violence
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
- Supreme Court case declaring racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional
- Thurgood Marshall
- NAACP lawyer who won Brown v. Board; later became first Black US Supreme Court Justice
- Greensboro Sit-ins (1960)
- Black college students' sit-in at a whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter that spread to 50+ cities
- Freedom Riders (1961)
- Interracial activists who rode interstate buses into the South to challenge segregation
- March on Washington (1963)
- 250,000-person civil rights march where King delivered the 'I Have a Dream' speech
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in employment and public accommodations
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Banned literacy tests and other tools used to prevent Black Americans from voting
- Jim Crow Laws
- State laws enforcing racial segregation in the South that the Civil Rights Movement worked to dismantle
- NAACP
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People — major civil rights organization that fought segregation in court
- Selma to Montgomery March (1965)
- Civil rights marches demanding voting rights that were met with police violence on 'Bloody Sunday'
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