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23 Cards in this Set
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Thurgood Marshall |
leader of NAACP lawyers |
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka |
Girl was blocked entry of close white school, segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional |
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Rosa Parks |
a seamstress and NAACP officer who was jailed for not giving up her seat to a white man |
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Martin Luther King Jr. |
led a bus boycott, was a minister at a Baptist Church |
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
wanted to carry on non violent crusades against evils of second class citizenship |
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
a national protest groups against segregation |
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sit-ins |
protestors sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until served |
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Freedom Riders |
African Americans who took a bus trip through the south to test supreme courts decision |
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James Meredith |
Air force Veteran that won a federal court case to enroll at Ole Miss |
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, origin, and gender |
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Freedom Summer |
a campaign to pass a voting rights act |
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Fannie Lou Hamer |
voice of 1964 Democratic National Convention |
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Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
eliminated literacy tests that disqualified voters |
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de facto segregation |
segregation that exists by practice |
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de jure segregation |
segregation by law |
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Malcolm X |
An african american leader |
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Nation of Islam |
Black Muslims |
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Stokely Carmichael |
SNCC member that led followers in a march |
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Black Power |
a call for black people to define their own goals |
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Black Panthers |
fought police brutality in the ghetto |
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Kerner Commission |
President Johnson appointed them to study causes of Urban violence |
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Civil Rights Act of 1968 |
ended discrimination in housing |
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Affirmative action |
involve making special efforts to hire or enroll groups |
