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_ court case that called for the implementation of school integration with "all deliberate speed" across the nation.

Brown II

_ court case that overturned the "separate bu equal" ruling. called fir the integration of the schools.

Brown v. board of education Topeka, Kansas

_founded by James Farmer, its members applied direct non-violent methods of protest to gain civil rights.

CORE

_ was the chief justice of the Supreme Court who ruled on key court cases that supported civil rights.

Earl Warren

_ influenced king and other by his non-violent methods to gain civil rights.

Gandhi

_ appointed a committee on civil rights to investigate race relations, he used his executive power to order the desegregation of the military.

Harry truman

Which of these African Americans is famous for breaking into major league baseball?

Jackie Robinson

_ broke the racial barriers by become the first African American to play major league baseball.

Jackie Robinson

_laws that were implemented in the South that kept African Americans as second class citizens

Jim Crow

_ site where the most famous clash between state and federal government over school integration. (Gov. Orval Faubus and Eisenhower). It was here that Central High School became one of the first school's to integrate.

Little Rock

_ Baptist minister who became a prominent leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He advocated non-violent means of protest and got his start being the spokes person of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Martin Luther King Jr

Which was the earliest event shown on the map?

Montgomery Bus Boycott

_ 1955-1956 protest by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, against racial segregation in the bus system.

Montgomery bus boycott

_ was the largest and most powerful civil rights organizations in the nation; fought for civil rights in the courts

NAACP

which civil rights organization won a number of important court cases against segregation in the 1950s?

NAACP

_ an African American seamstress and civil rights activist whose arrest led a boycott of the Montgomery Bus System.

Rosa Parks

_formed by kind and another minister Ralph Abernathy to continue the fight for civil rights

Southern Christina Leadership (SCLC)

_written by southern congressmen who pledged to oppose the brown decision through all "lawful means"

Southern Manifesto

what were Jim Crow laws?

They were laws that enforced the strict separation of the races.

the conflict at little rocks central high school was a reaction to

brown v. board of education

_ signed into law by President Eisenhower, It established a Civil RIghts Commission. The first piece of civil right's legislation since Reconstruction

civil rights act of 1957

_ segregation by unwritten custom or tradition, was a fact of life.

de facto segregation

_segregation by law.

de jure segregation

in a ruling known as Brown II, the Supreme Court

ordered the immediate implementation of Brown v. Board of Education.

_ court case that stated segregation was legal, known as the "separate by equal" case

poesy v. Ferguson

which statement is consistent with this dissenting option?

segregation is undesirable in a democratic society

the members of the congress of racial equality (CORE) believed

that direct, nonviolent methods could gain civil rights for African Americans

which statement evaluates the impact of president Eisenhower's action in advancing the goals of the civil rights movement?

the executive order was evidence of Eisenhower's willingness to uphold the authority of a court order

how did the actions of the Tuskegee Airmen contribute to the Civil rights movement?

the unit performed wartime service that increased calls for equality

_ African American lawyer, won the case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, became the first African American appointed to the Supreme Court.

thurgood Marshall


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