Jim Crow Laws & Civil Rights Movement Notes

Rosa Parks

12-1-1955 Montgomery Alabama, refused to give up her seat and boycotted for a year until it was desegregated on 12-21-1956

Plessy vs Fergusen

1896 Homer plessy tried to sit on white mens train, he fought in court and court ruled to have separate facilities that were equal

Civil Rights Movement

1950-60s marked by racial segregation and prejudice against AAs

Brown vs BOE

1964 Linda Brown was denied admission to elementary school bc she was black, a lawsuit was filed under Cheif Earl Warren and Attorney Thurgood Marshall. court ruled it was unconstitutional and this was first start to civil rights movement

Martin Luther King Jr

8-28-1963 March on Washington inspired by Gandhi, lead 250,000 people from Washington Monument to Lincoln Memorial

Woolsworth

Feb 1960 four AA college students were refused service and hosed up everyday for 6 months until they got served

Lyndon B Johnson

July 2nd 1964 signed the civil rights act which started reconstruction and equal rights to everyone

KKK

June of 1964 3 civil rights workers who were registering black voters were killed

Jim Crow Laws

Segregation-begining as customs but turned into laws

End to Jim Crow Laws

WW2 jump started end, 1954 brown vs BOE, 1964 civil rights act

Jim Crow laws were enacted in the US...

between 1876-1965, Seperate but Equal

Grandfathers clause

exempted you from poll tax and literacy test (all white could vote now) AA began to lose public power

lyching

hanging of black men for no reason, without trial

Freedmans Bureau

helped former slaves succeed, provided food education, and medical care

Poll Tax

people had to pay a fee in order to vote

Literacy Test

people were required to be able to read in order to vote

KKK

terroists that beat, raped, murdered and committed violent crimes agaist blacks

After slavery, many AAs were promised 40 acres and a mule but...

were only allowed to work on white mens land and became share croppers

Jim Crow

white comidean who wore a black faces and played to white audiences pretending to be black and joking about them