Civil Rights

Brown v. Board of Education -

• - required desegregation of schools; NAACP’s Thurgood Marshall helped argue case; overturned legal segregation created by Plessy v. Ferguson

• ended poll taxes and literacy tests set up by Jim Crow laws; supported 15th Amendment–African American men could vote; resulted in increased voting by minorities

• ended segregation and required equal treatment of minorities in the workplace

• government agencies could no longer discriminate in their employment practices

1 Rosa Parks

• - fought segregation through civil disobedience; bus sit-in led to year-long bus boycotts and inspired others

• Governor Orval Faubus challenged the power of the federal government to desegregate schools; President Eisenhower sent troops to enforce ruling

• important leader of the civil rights movement; believed in civil disobedience instead of violence

• civil rights group that used armed resistance to protest and to defend themselves; Huey Newton

Martin Luther King, Jr.

• important leader of the civil rights movement; believed in civil disobedience instead of violence

• - required desegregation of schools; NAACP’s Thurgood Marshall helped argue case; overturned legal segregation created by Plessy v. Ferguson

• ended segregation and required equal treatment of minorities in the workplace

Black Panthers

• civil rights group that used armed resistance to protest and to defend themselves; Huey Newton

• created after WWII; result of baby boom and increased demand for housing

• government agencies could no longer discriminate in their employment practices

• - fought segregation through civil disobedience; bus sit-in led to year-long bus boycotts and inspired othersblack b b

Little Rock, Arkansas

• - Governor Orval Faubus challenged the power of the federal government to desegregate schools; President Eisenhower sent troops to enforce ruling

• non-violent protest aimed to improve political rights and economic opportunities for minorities; resulted in new legislation

• - required desegregation of schools; NAACP’s Thurgood Marshall helped argue case; overturned legal segregation created by Plessy v. Ferguson

• government agencies could no longer discriminate in their employment practices

March on Washington

• non-violent protest aimed to improve political rights and economic opportunities for minorities; resulted in new legislation

• ended poll taxes and literacy tests set up by Jim Crow laws; supported 15th Amendment–African American men could vote; resulted in increased voting by minorities

• - non-violent protest aimed to improve political rights and economic opportunities for minorities; resulted in new legislation

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Civil Rights Act of 1964 -

• ended segregation and required equal treatment of minorities in the workplace

• government agencies could no longer discriminate in their employment practices

• - ended poll taxes and literacy tests set up by Jim Crow laws; supported 15th Amendment–African American men could vote; resulted in increased voting by minorities

Equal Employment Opportunity

• government agencies could no longer discriminate in their employment practices

• ended segregation and required equal treatment of minorities in the workplace

• ended poll taxes and literacy tests set up by Jim Crow laws; supported 15th Amendment–African American men could vote; resulted in increased voting by minorities

Voting Rights Act of 1965

• ended poll taxes and literacy tests set up by Jim Crow laws; supported 15th Amendment–African American men could vote; resulted in increased voting by minorities

• - government agencies could no longer discriminate in their employment practices

• - ended segregation and required equal treatment of minorities in the workplace