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22 Cards in this Set
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Affirmative action
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requirement that an organization take steps to increase proportion of minorities in membership
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Brown v Board of Education
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class-action suit where SC rules that seperate schools are unequal, overturns Plessy
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Civil rights
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rights of citizens to vote, recieve equal treatment under law, share facilities
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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assured equality of opprotunity in employment, schools, voting, public accomodations
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Civil rights movement
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de facto segregation
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school segregation occuring because of patterns of residential settlement.
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de jure segregation
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school segregation occuring because of laws prohibiting integration.
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Fourteenth Amendment
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(1868) makes ex-slaves citizens, equal protection and due-process clause applied to states
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Freedom rides
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rode in interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the desegregation of buses
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Martin Luther King Jr
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organized bus boycott in Montgomery
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Montgomery bus boycott
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intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system, led to SC decision outlawing segregated buses.
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National Association for the advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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established in 1909 to lobby in Washington, but most influential in court
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Nonviolent civil disobedience
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philosophy of opposing a law one considers unjust by peacefully violating it and being punished.
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Plessy v Ferguson
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adopted narrow view of 14th Amendment, stating that seperate-but-equal is still equal
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Reasonableness standard
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if gov treat some classes of people differently, treatment must be reasonable
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Roe v Wade
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allows abortions in the 1st trimester
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Rosa Parks
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started bus boycott by refusing to give up seat to white man
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seperate-but-equal doctrine
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upheld by Plessy, but undone by Brown. Doctrine stating that seperate but equal facilities are still equal
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sit-ins
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involves people nonviolently occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social change
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strict scrutiny standard
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establishes that drawing distinctions between different groups is inherently questionable
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Swann v Charolette-Mecklenberg BOE
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set guidelines for subsequent school segregation cases.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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outlawed literacy tests to qualify to register to vote, gave Department of Justice oversight over questionable voting areas
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