NAACP – Flashcards

Naacp. The NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is a civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of "people of color." W. E.B.

A member of a militant political organization set up in the U.S in 1966 to fight for black rights

A law passed at the time of the civil rights movement. It eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people.

ohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.

A landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national sign

Freedom Summer was a 1964 voter registration project in Mississippi, part of a larger effort by civil rights groups such as CORE.

Occupy a place as a form of protest

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans. It took place in Washington, D.C.

group of northern idealists active in the civil rights movement. The Freedom Riders, who included both blacks and whites, rode buses into the South in the early 1960s in order to challenge racial segregation.

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

The Montgomery bus boycott, a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.

action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart.