Unit 8 Key Terms

The Movement for African Americans that took off after WW2. Famous people included MLK Jr, Malcolm X, and many more.

• Abolition Movement

• Civil Rights Movmement

• Temperance Movement

• NAACP Movement

Supreme Court decision that racial segregation in public schools is inherently unequal and unconstitutional.

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Heart of Atlanta Motel, INC v. US

Supreme Court case that legalized segregation. Later overturned by Brown v. Board of Education.

• MLK Jr v. Segregation

• Heart of Atlanta Motel, INC v. US

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Plessy v. Ferguson

Supreme Court case ruling that said Congress could outlaw segregation in private businesses.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Heart of Atlanta Motel, INC v. US

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

Segregation by law. Predominantly found in the South.

• De Jure Segregation

• De Facto Integration

• De Jure Integration

• De Facto Segregation

Segregation by choice. "Birds of a feather flock together."

• De Jure Segregation

• De Facto Integration

• De Jure Integration

• De Facto Segregation

In response to Rosa Parks’ arrest, African Americans refuse to use public bus services. It is a SUCCESFFUL boycott.

• Selma Bus Boycott

• Little Rock Bus Boycott

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Tuscaloosa Bus Boycott

Non-violent refusal to obey unjust laws. Used by MLK Jr.

• Violent Disobedience

• Civil Disobedience

• Immoral Disobedience

• Peaceful Disobedience

The recognized leader of the Civil Rights Movement. Practiced non-violence and civil disobedience. Assassinated in 1968.

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Rosa Parks

• Fredrick Douglas

Militant leader who later rejected his former message of distrust of all whites and then was assassinated in 1965. Advocated for the opposite of civil disobedience.

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Fredrick Douglas

• Malcolm X