Transcript Rosa Parks - Margaret Mead Junior High School

CIVIL RIGHTS VOCAB
DIRECTIONS:
Write down as much information as you can
about each of the following key people,
groups and events from the Civil Rights Era.
World War II
Thurgood Marshall
Rosa Parks
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Bus boycott
Martin Luther
King’s tactics
Organization????
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Freedom Ride
CORE .
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Sit-in
Washington D.C.
August, 1963
Civil Rights Act
of 1964
Freedom Summer
Voting Rights Act
Malcolm
Equal Rights
Amendment
ERA
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N.O.W.
Mexican-Americans
Native Americans
African Americans
women
Great Society
Cesar Chavez
AND THE ANSWERS ARE…
World War II
African American troops fought
for the freedom of others
during WWII and when they
returned home they gained the
courage to fight for their own
freedom.
Thurgood Marshall
African American attorney for the
NAACP who argued in favor of
the plaintiff in the Supreme Court
case Brown v. Board of
Education.
Rosa Parks
She refused to give up her seat on a bus –
challenging the Jim Crow laws of
Montgomery, AL. Her arrest led to the
Montgomery Bus Boycott – the beginning
of the modern civil rights movement.
Bus boycott
Montgomery Bus Boycott
lasted almost an entire
year. Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. helped organize
it. The boycott was an
example of King’s nonviolent protest.
Martin Luther
King’s tactics
Non-violent protest or
Civil Disobedience. Dr.
King was influenced
greatly by Ghandi.
Organization????
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SCLC –
Southern Christian
Leadership
Conference. Dr.
King founded this
group.
Freedom Ride
A protest against
segregation on interstate
busing in the South.
Freedom Rides were
organized by CORE.
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CORE .
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CORE – Congress of Racial Equality.
This group organized the Freedom Ride
protests against segregation on
interstate busing in the South.
Sit-in
A form of protest by sitting down and
refusing to move (non-violent protest).
Sit-ins were used by the SNCC –
Student Non-violent Coordinating
Committee. African American high
school and college students would sit
at segregated lunch counters and
refuse to move until they were
served.
Washington D.C.
August, 1963
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led the
March on Washington on August 28,
1963. Over 200,000 people of all colors
and from all over the country
participated in this event. It was this
day when Dr. King gave his “I Have A
Dream” speech.
Civil Rights Act
of 1964
Federal law that banned
segregation in all public places.
It was supported and signed by
President Johnson.
Freedom Summer
Civil rights workers helped African
Americans from the South to
register to vote.
Voting Rights Act
Law that gave the federal
government the power to
force local officials to
register African Americans to
vote.
Malcolm
Civil rights leader and
member of the Nation of
Islam. He told his
followers to stand up for
their own rights. He
disagreed with Dr. King
on the issue of integration
– he wanted full equality
for African Americans but
he also wanted to
independent of whites.
Equal Rights
Amendment
Proposed constitutional amendment that would
have outlawed discrimination based on gender.
This amendment was never added to the
Constitution because not enough states ratified it.
(Congress passed it, but ¾ of the states (38) did
not pass it within the ten year window.)
ERA
=
ERA – Equal Rights Amendment
N.O.W.
NOW – National Organization
for Women. This group fought
for equal rights for women in
all aspects of life – jobs,
education and marriage. NOW
campaigned for the ERA.
Mexican-Americans
Native Americans
African Americans
women
Other groups that also fought for equality and civil rights during the
Civil Rights Era.
Great Society
The name of President
Johnson’s domestic programs –
many of which directly supported
civil rights.
Cesar Chavez
Latino civil rights leader who also
organized the UFW – United Farm
Workers union, which won higher
wages and shorter hours for Latino
farm workers. He also supported the
fight to elect more Latinos to
government posts.