Flashcards in Vocabulary Words Deck (12):
Thur good Marshall
Who went on to become Supreme Court justice , and Jack Greenberg led the courtroom battles against segregation.
Brown V. Board of Education
In the early 1950 , five school segregation cases from Delaware, Kansas, South Carolina , Virginia , and Washington , D.C., cams together under the title of Brown V. Board of Education .
Montgomery bus boycott
Thousands of African Americans stopped riding the buses .
Student Nonviolet Coordinating Committee
To continue the struggle of civil rights m he leaders of the student protest formed the SNCC .
John F. Kennedy
Won the election of 1960 , he became the youngest person ever elected president of the United States .
To accomplish this CORE organized a series of protests ca,,ed the Freedom Rides , in which black and white bus riders traveled together to segregated bus stations in the South .
March On Washington
To demonstrate support to the civil rights bill , African American leader held the March On Washington a massive demonstration for civil rights .
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Th act banned segregation in public places . It also outlawed discrimination in the workplace on the basis of color , gender , religion , or national origin .
Voting Right Act of 1965
Which Johnson signed into law in August . This ,aw gave the federal government new powers to protect African Americans voting rights .
His program of domestic reforms that he called the great Society .
Movement , which called for African American independence .