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Civil Rights Movement by CraSheena

  • Booker T Washington 'Atlanta Compromise'

    Booker T Washington 'Atlanta Compromise'

    Booker spoke before a predominately white audience at a Cotton State and International Exposition in Atlanta
  • Plessy v Ferguson 'Jim Crow Stories'

    Plessy v Ferguson 'Jim Crow Stories'

    A law which requires that all railways provide separate cars be equal for blacks and whites
  • Franklin D Roosevelt

    Franklin D Roosevelt

    Tried to issue an executive order to help blacks fight in the was but it was never a law and since everyone was in the was a lot of jobs opened for blacks to work
  • CORE Congress of Racial Equality

    CORE Congress of Racial Equality

    Organization that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement
  • Jackie Robinson

    Jackie Robinson

    Emerged as an inspiring figure in the civil rights movement when he became the first black man to play major league baseball in the 20th century
  • Harry Truman 'Desegragation'

    Harry Truman 'Desegragation'

    Desegragated the U.S. Armed Forces in 1948
  • Septima Clark

    Septima Clark

    Gave a speech about the SNCC
  • Linda Brown 'Brown v. Board of Education'

    Linda Brown 'Brown v. Board of Education'

    Case argued by attorney Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision that the "separate but equal" doctrine was unconstitutional because it violated the 14th Amendment rights by separating students solely on the classification of the color of their skins
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

    Parks sat on a bus after along day of work because she was tired. She was then ask to move by a caucasian passenger and refused to move. The bus driver then got out of his seat and asked her to move and she refused again. She was then taken away by the police and put in jail.
  • Bear Bryant

    Bear Bryant

    Legendary coach in the South who was facing a pair of ethic svandals that threatened his career
  • Elizabeth Eckford 'Desegregation

    Elizabeth Eckford 'Desegregation

    Tried to attend Central Hugh School only to be repeatedly rebuffed by soldiers from Arkansas National Guard
  • Dwight Eisenhower

    Dwight Eisenhower

    Signed civil rights act of 1957 into law
  • NAACP

    NAACP

    Nations oldest largest and most widely recognized grass-roots based on civil rights organization
  • SNCC 'Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee'

    SNCC 'Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee'

    Emergence as a force in the southern civil rights movements came largely through the involvement of students
  • Fannie Lou Hamer Democratic National Convention

    Fannie Lou Hamer Democratic National Convention

    Became a SNCC field secretary and advocated voting rights
  • Anne Moody

    Anne Moody

    Helped organize racial equalities and participated in a sit in
  • Bull Conner Desegregation

    Bull Conner Desegregation

    Connor was a throwback to times that had passed and was an unwanted symbol of hard line Southern Racism
  • John F Kennedy

    John F Kennedy

    Gave a speech in Alabama to help King
  • Martin Luther King Jr. March on Washington

    Martin Luther King Jr. March on Washington

    Birmingham Alabama King guided peaceful mass demonstration that the white police force countered with police dogs and fire hoses creating a controversy which newspaper headlines the world. He gave his 'I Have a Dream' speech.
  • SCLC

    SCLC

    Civil Rights are essential to democracy and segregation must end
  • Lyndon Johnson

    Lyndon Johnson

    Called for immediate passage of Civil Right legislation
  • James Meredith

    James Meredith

    First black to attend University of Mississippi
  • Black Muslims

    Black Muslims

    Movement in the legal dictionary
  • George Wallace 'Black Power Era'

    George Wallace 'Black Power Era'

    Pres Johnson commanded govenor wallace to protect Selma march but he refused claiming the state was 'finacially unable' to do so. Became the most prominent national icon segragationist resistance to the civil rights movement
  • Black Panthers

    Black Panthers

    Dismantled the Jim Crow system of Racial caste
  • KKK

    KKK

    After WWII the name Ku Klux Klan was used by numerous groups throughout the South who opposed the civil rights movement and desegregation 1960s
  • Malcolm X 'Black Power'

    Malcolm X 'Black Power'

    Rejected the civil rights movement's stance on nonviolence and preached black people through his devotion to the Nation of Islam