Key events, leaders, and legislation of the mid-20th century Civil Rights Movement for AP US History.
34 cards · basic cards · AI-written, checked twice. Edit anything.
- What 1954 Supreme Court case declared separate but equal unconstitutional in education?
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Who refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery on December 1, 1955?
- Rosa Parks
- How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
- 381 days, from December 5, 1955 to December 20, 1956
- Why was Emmett Till's murder in 1955 historically significant?
- His death and acquittal of his killers galvanized the Civil Rights Movement and exposed racial violence
- Who defied court orders to integrate Central High School in Little Rock in 1957?
- Governor Orval Faubus
- What group of nine Black students integrated Central High School in Little Rock in 1957?
- The Little Rock Nine
- Where did the lunch counter sit-in movement begin on February 1, 1960?
- Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina
- What were Freedom Riders?
- Integrated groups who rode interstate buses starting in 1961 to test desegregation
- In what year did James Meredith integrate the University of Mississippi?
- 1962
- What did Governor George Wallace do at the University of Alabama in 1963?
- Attempted to block desegregation with his stand in the schoolhouse door statement
- Which NAACP field secretary was assassinated in Mississippi in 1963?
- Medgar Evers
- What tragic event occurred at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham on September 15, 1963?
- A church bombing that killed four young Black girls
- On what date and location did the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom occur?
- August 28, 1963 in Washington, D.C.
- What famous speech did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver at the March on Washington in 1963?
- I Have a Dream
- What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibit?
- Discrimination in public accommodations and employment based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin