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