Rosa Parks
segregation according to law
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom Summer
Baptist minister; face of the Civil Rights movement
SNCC
de facto segregation
taking buses throughout the deep south to protest against segregation
George Wallace
Thurgood Marshall
banned literacy tests and allowed federal government to oversee elections where states discriminate against minorities
Black Panthers
JFK signed this for equal pay for women doing equal work
Civil Rights Act of 1964
freedom riders
non-violent form of protest; usually at restaurant counters
sit-in
kicked off the Montgomery Bus Boycott with her actions
called for black pride and black nationalism
blacks and whites registering voters in Mississippi in 1964
African-American Lawyer; part of the NAACP; became a Supreme Court justice
signed by President Johnson; prohibited segregation in public accommodations
Governor from Alabama; loved segregation
Voting Rights Act of 1965
goal was to create a grassroots movement to defeat white racism
Equal Pay Act
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on the Brown v. Board of Education case
de jure segregation
Earl Warren
Malcolm X
became notable due to the massive media coverage
24th amendment
March on Washington
banned poll taxes when voting
segregation according to unwritten traditions or customs
young, militant African Americans
