Week Nine Key Terms

The Civil Rights Movement

1909 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded
1910 National Urban League founded
1950 Sweat v Painter
1954 Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (Thurgood Marshall)
1955 The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King)
SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
1961 Freedom Rides
1963 March on Washington ("I Have A Dream" speech)
1965 The Voting Rights Act

Memphis

Beale Street
1866 race riots
1870s cholera and yellow fever epidemic
1909 "Boss Crump Blues", W.C. Handy

"Police Station Blues", Peetie Wheatstraw, 1932
"Falling Down Blues", Furry Lewis, 1927
WDIA
"B.B.'s Blues", B.B. King, 1952
"Tiger Man", Rufus Thomas, 1953
Sun Records
Sam Phillips
"Hound Dog", Big Mama Thornton, 1952
"Booted", Roscoe Gordon, 1952
"Cotton Crop Blues", James Cotton, 1951
"Rocket 88", Jackie Brenston (with Ike Turner), 1951

"Blue Moon of Kentucky", Bill Monroe, 1947
"Blue Moon of Kentucky", Elvis Presley, 1954
"Mystery Train", Little Junior's Blue Flames, 1953
"Mystery Train", Elvis Presley, 1954

"Folsom City Blues", Johnny Cash

"Paying the Cost to Be The Boss", B.B. King, 1968
"The Thrill Is Gone", B.B. King, 1970

"Little Boy Blue" Bobby Blue Bland, 1958
"I've Been Wrong So Long", Bobby Blue Bland, 1960