Civil Rights Vocab

1896 Supreme Court decision "separate but equal", segregation legal

• Roe V. Wade

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• Brown V. Board of Ed.

• Scott V. Sanford

1954 - The Supreme Court declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.

• Roe V. Wade

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• Brown V. Board of Ed.

• Scott V. Sanford

Civil Rights leader opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Rosa Parks

• Fred Shuttlesworth

• John Lewis

Civil Rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, AL.

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Rosa Parks

• Fred Shuttlesworth

• John Lewis

One of the founding members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Civil Rights activist

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Rosa Parks

• Fred Shuttlesworth

• John Lewis

student leader of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee who organized sit-ins

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Rosa Parks

• Fred Shuttlesworth

• John Lewis

protest in 1955-1956 by African Americans against racial segregation in the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama.

• March on Washington

• Selma to Montgomery March

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Freedom Riders

civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation

• March on Washington

• Selma to Montgomery March

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Freedom Riders

1965 King led a 54-mile march to support black voter registration.

• March on Washington

• Selma to Montgomery March

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Freedom Riders

1963 demonstration in which more than 200,000 people rallied for economic equality and civil rights

• March on Washington

• Selma to Montgomery March

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Freedom Riders