USAPHistory NB #45 Vocab "The Civil Rights Movement"

The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.

• Civil Rights

• Desegregation

• Civil Disobedience

• Black Power Movement

• Feminine Mystique

The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declaring that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Roe v. Wade

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Schenck v. U.S.

The ending of authorized separation of people by race.

• desegregation

• integration

• apartheid

• civil disobedience

• black power movement

Struck down state's law banning interracial marriage as violation of the 14th Amendment equal protection clause.

• Loving v. Virginia

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Roe v. Wade

• Marbury v. Madison

• Texas v. Johnson

U.S. President who succeeded Kennedy and actively supported civil rights legislation and affirmative action; responsible for the escalation of the Vietnam War.

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Warren G. Harding

• Harry S. Truman

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Mahatma Gandhi

The act made racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers illegal and gave the government the power to enforce all laws governing civil rights, including desegregation of schools and public place.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Lend-Lease Act of 1954

• Voter Rights Act 1960

• Anti-Discrimination Act 1965

• Civil Disobedience Act 1960

In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin L. King led a boycott of city buses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal.

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Alabama Lock-Out

• Selma Bus Riot

• Georgia Garage Boycott

• Louisville Lock-Out

U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee

• Martin Luther King

• A. Phillip Randolph

• Malcolm X

• Bertrum Friedan

• Lyndon B. Johnson

Leader of the peaceful civil disobedience movement in India. His non-violent protests techniques were used later by Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights movement.

• Mahatma Gandhi

• Ceaser Chavez

• Malcolm X

• Roe Wade

• Butros Butros Gali

Organized by Ella Baker and others, these student activist used sit-ins as an effective protest method

• Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

• Selma Coordinating Committee

• Black Panthers

• Congress of Non-Violent Students

• Civil Disobedient Non-Violent Coordinating Committee