U.S. History Chapter 14 Section 2 The Movement Gains Ground

"I Have a Dream Speech"

A famous speech my Marin Luther King Jr on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in which he called for racial equality and to end discrimination

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

A letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. after he had been arrested when he took part in a nonviolent march against segregation. He was disappointed more Christians didn't speak out against racism.

Filibuster

A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches

Ella Baker

A veteran of the struggle for civil rights. Helped young activists to establish a new civil rights organization.

James Meredith

Air Force veteran was the first black person admitted to all-white University of Mississippi in 1962; escorted by troops in order to enroll. United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi.

Lee Harvey Oswald

Assassinated JFK

T. Eugene "Bull" Connor

Birmingham's city commissioner of public safety, blamed the Freedom Riders for all the violence.

Medgar Evers

Civil rights activist. A lawyer who defended accused Blacks. He helped James Meredith get admitted to Univ of Miss.and was later assassinated on his front porch

EEOC

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Enforces laws to prevent unfair treatment on the job due to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, or age.

September 15, 1963

16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL was bombed by KKK, killing 4 little girls and injuring other. One of the events that lead up to the Civil Rights Act.

Freedom Riders

Group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation

March on Washington

Held in 1963 to show support for the Civil Rights Bill in Congress. Martin Luther King gave his famous "I have a dream" speech. 250,000 people attended the rally

Sit- in

Nonviolent protests in which a person sits and refuses to leave

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Signed by President Johnson. The act banned segregation in public accommodations and gave the federal government the ability to compel state and local school boards to desegregate their schools.

SNCC

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Its goal was to create a grass- roots movement that involved all classes of African Americans in the struggle to defeat white racism and to obtain equality