Civil Rights

Nonviolent

March on Washington

Freedom Summer

Rosa Parks

Freedom Riders

Little Rock 9

Sit-Ins

Birmingham Riots

Selma

  1. The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery.

Sit-Ins were non-violent protests against segregation

Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States that were protesting segregated public transportation

Volunteer campaign to registers African-Americans to vote

A march for jobs and freedom for African-Americans

Activist for the civil rights movement against segregation in public transportation

Nine African-American students from Little Rock Central High School that were prevented from going to the school due to segregation

A riot provoked by bombings that targeted black leaders

Violent

Dejure

Nation of Islam

Defacto

Black Power

1968

Black panthers

People that are not separated legally but remain separate from each other

Legal separation of groups of people based on the law

African American political and religious movement

A group of African-Americans that were apart of the civil rights movement

( Malcolm X ) Muslim minister and human rights activist through violence.

Had been used as a civil rights rallying phrase by Willie Ricks, an SNCC man, before Carmichael used it on the “March Against Fear”.

The Civil Rights Act prohibited discrimination. Refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, religion or national origin.