Civil Rights Review

U.S. Civil Rights leader who was active in the Nation of Islam; encouraged use of violence if necessary

• Rosa Parks

• Robert Kennedy

• Malcolm X

• Chester Copperpot

1954 Supreme Court ruling that said schools must not be segregated

• Civil Rights Act of 1954

• 13th Amendment

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

Civil Rights leader who taught nonviolence as a way to achieve equal rights

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Ruby Bridges

• Malcolm X

• Muhammad Ali

1896 Supreme Court ruling that allowed segregation; "separate but equal" was legal

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Civil Rights Act

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Roe v. Wade

Lawyer for the NAACP who brought many cases involving civil rights violations to the Sup. Court

• Stokely Carmichael

• Thurgood Marshall

• Joseph McCarthy

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ike sent troops to help integrate a high school by escorting and protecting black students

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Little Rock 9

• Brown v. Board

• Sit-ins

A program to increase African American voter registration in the South during the mid 1960s

• CORE

• Freedom Summer

• SNCC

• March on Washington

Early civil rights activists, under the direction of the SCLC, won public support by ______.

• using non-violent resistance

• forming the Black Panthers

• calling for a separation of the races

• using violence when met with violence

CR group of mostly college students; org'd nonviolent sitins to draw attention to segregation

• SNCC

• Freedom Riders

• Freedom Summer

• SCLC

Laws that established separate public facilities for whites and blacks

• Restrictive Covenants

• Gerrymandering laws

• De facto segregation

• Jim Crow laws