Am. History Chapter 27
James Meredith
African American who enrolled at Ole Miss
Kennedy Administration
Agreed not to stop the arrest of Mississippi activists in return for the desegregation of interstate transportation
Kerner Commission
Attempted to determine the causes of the 1967 riots
Voting Rights Act
Banned literacy tests for voter registration
Brown V. Board of Education
Case that overturned Plessy V. Ferguson
Montgomery, AL
Considered the most segregated city in the South
Hernandez V. Texas
Extended 14th Amendment protections to Mexican Americans
Jackie Robinson
Famous for breaking into the MLB
Why did King go to Memphis in 1968?
He went to offer assistance to sanitation workers who were striking for better wages and working conditions
Where were the volunteers' bodies found?
In an earthen dam
What gains did the civil rights movement make by the early 1970's?
It eliminated de jure segregation and broke the barriers to African American voting and political participation. Poverty rates fell and income rose, along with graduates
Selma, AL
MLK Jr. and the SCLC organized a major campaign to enact voting rights; there were a series of confrontations on the Edmund Pettus Bridge; "Bloody Sunday"
What impact did Malcom X have on the civil rights movement?
Many African Americans considered themselves as heirs of Malcom X; they moved away from the principle of nonviolence
Freedom Summer
Massive 1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi
Thurgood Marshall
NAACP attorney who led a legal challenge against segregation
De jure segregation
Racial separation imposed by law
Malcom X
Radical African American activist killed in 1965
President Johnson
Signed the Civil Rights Acts if 1964
Black Power
Term first used by SNCC leader Stokley Carmichael
Nation of Islam
While in prison, Malcom X converted to this
Medgar Evers
desegregation of University of Mississippi
