Civil Rights and Social Change

Bringing separate groups together

• integration
• Looking at this will slow you down
• discrimination
• segregation

These black teenagers were the first to integrate into Little Rock Central High

• Elite Eight
• Little Rock Nine
• Arkansas Seven
• Final Four

Was originally a theater character, but became a term that described things related to African Americans

• Jim Sparrow
• Jack Sparrow
• Jack Crow
• Jim Crow

Atlanta born Civil Rights activist that believed in non-violent protests.; gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington.

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Cesar Chavez

• Thurgood Marshall

Senator who ran for President and was later assassinated. His older brother was a US president who was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Robert Kennedy

• John F. Kennedy

• Thurgood Marshall

Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus.

• Mary Washington

• Jackie Kennedy

• Cesar Chavez

• Rosa Parks

Desegregated all public schools. This was a major court case that involved Linda Brown attending an all-black school when an all-white school was closer to her home.

• Brown vs. the Board of Education

• 13th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Jim Crow Laws

When African Americans refused to ride the public busses as a sign of protest; this began when Rosa Parks was jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a black man.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• March on Washington

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• 15th Amendment

Outlawed racial discrimination in the workplace and in public places, including schools.

• 13th Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1964

Gave all citizens born in the United States citizenship (rights of citizens).

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment