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| The elected President before the civil rights movement had started |
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| Economic Opportunities Act |
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| a program that provided youth with loans. created JB Corps, VISTA, project head start, and community action programs. |
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| A program by LBJ to reduce racial problems and poverty and to provide a better standard of living. |
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| provided hospital insurance and low cost medical insurance for 65 and older |
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| extension of health insurance |
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| opened doors to Europeans and ended quotas. |
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| the supreme court during Earl Warren. the court cases were charges to free speech and civil rights stuff. |
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| the way states redraw election districts based on the changing number of people in them. |
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| the case which said, "separate but equal" |
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| The first black supreme court justice. he was the in the case Brown vs Board. |
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| Brown Vs. Board of Education |
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| the case was about a girl who couldn't go to school 4 blocks away, so had to go to school 21 blocks away. this case reversed the plessy vs Ferguson, "separate but equal" |
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| nine black children were supposed to go to an integrated school in Little Rock. they were taunted and name called by whites, so they got federal troops to guard them. |
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| Involved in the Montgomery bus boycott, refused to give up her seat to a white man |
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| Civil Rights Activist, in charge of boycott by NAACP. led non violent protests |
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| Southern Christian Leadership Conference [SCLC] |
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| the organization that MLK joined. |
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| Student nonviolent coordinating committee (SNCC) |
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| the blacks would go the white lunch counters and refuse to leave until they were served. whites beat them up, but they still wouldn't leave. |
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| civil rights activists who rode buses through the south to challenge segregation |
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| won federal court cases allowing him to go to Ole Miss college. the governor of Mississippi wouldn't let him register, so the prez had to get federal troops. |
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| Prohibited discrimination based on race |
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| project to register blacks to vote in mississippi. college kids came to help too, a lot of them got shot (white) |
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| project to register blacks to vote in mississippi. college kids came to help too, a lot of them got shot (white) |
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| became the voice of the Mississippi's freedom democratic party. they gained lots of support, so Kennedy got scared that they would take all of his votes. he wanted a compromise, but the blacks rejected it. |
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| Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
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| eliminated literacy tests so people could vote. |
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| segregations in the north, by practice and customs |
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| urged blacks to take control of their own communities. later joined the nation of islam |
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| Black Muslims, really radical. led by the teachings of Elijah Muhammad. |
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| joined a walk with MLK, Floyd Mckissick. |
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| "call for black people to begin to define their own goals" in a speech by Stokely Carmichael. |
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| Invented by Huey Newton and Bobby Seal to fight against police brutality in the ghettos. they dressed in all black and sold stuff by Mao Zedong. |
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| organization to investigate the cause of urban riots. the answer was white racism. but the government ignored the answer. |
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| ended discrimination in housing which led to more opportunities. |
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| a program which people adapted in society. it basically was that schools would hire people who had suffered discrimination. |
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