The Civil Rights Movement

When? who? how? why? and any important info.  just keep it simple

TERMS:

Thurgood Marshall                                                                                          

Rosa Parks

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)

Mendez et al. v. Westminster School District of Orange County (1947)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Little Rock school crisis                                            

Greensboro (North Carolina) Sit-ins

“Freedom riders”                                                                 

 Birmingham, Alabama (1963)

March on Washington (1963)                                        

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

Civil Rights Act of 1964                                                             

Voting Rights Act of 1965

“Black Power”                               

Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Black Panther party                                                                                             

Malcolm X

The Great Society (LBJ)                                                                                   

Earl Warren

Engel v. Vitale (1962)                                                            

Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)

Miranda v. Arizona (1966)                                                 

Griswold v. Connecticut (1964)

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)                                       

Free Speech Movement                                                                      

Vatican II                                                                                                                         60s Counterculture

Woodstock Music Festival (1969)