Civil Rights

The Supreme Court ruling that Supreme court ruling that allowed segregation of railroad cars if the accommodations were "separate but equal" ​

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Jim Crow Laws

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

established separate facilities for whites and blacks in the South, including waiting rooms, restrooms, schools, train cars, and many others​

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Jim Crow Laws

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

the Supreme Court ruling that said segregation in public schools was unconstitutional

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Jim Crow Laws

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

a protest by African-Americans to stop the riding of busses to protest segregation

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Jim Crow Laws

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

headed by Martin Luther King Jr, this group played a major role in the Civil Rights Movement by encouraging protestors to use nonviolent resistance ​

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

a group that trained students to deliberately break laws they saw unjust to protest segregation ​

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

an African-American veteran of the Korean War who applied to University of Mississippi as a transfer student; originally denied admission but President John F. Kennedy later upheld the law that Brown v. Board of Education ruled; became first African-American student admitted into this university ​

• John F. Kennedy

• James Meredith

• Martin Luther King

• Rosa Parks

___-___ were protests where African-Americans would go to "white-only" places and sit there, refusing to move and causing the businesses to lose money ​

_______ _____ were group of protestors who rode on busses from state to state to see if the bus companies were following the rules of desegregation ​

True or False: The March on Washington was the largest political gathering ever held in the United States ​where a group of 250,000 people marched in Washington D.C, protesting civil rights, employment, decent housing, and voting rights ​

• True

• False