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22 Cards in this Set
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka |
A 1954 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” education for black and white students was unconstitutional.
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Thurgood Marshall
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was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice. |
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Rosa Parks |
was an African American civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement |
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Martin Luther King Jr |
was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. |
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) |
an organization formed in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders to work for civil rights through nonviolent means.
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Student Noviolent Coordinatiing Committee (SNCC) |
an organization formed in 1960 to coordinate sit-ins and other protests and to give young blacks a larger role in the civil rights movement.
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Sit-in |
a form of demonstration used by African Americans to protest discrimination, in which the protesters sit down in a segregated business and refuse to leave until they are served.
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Freedom Rider |
one of the civil rights activists who rode buses through the South in the early 1960s to challenge segregation.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
a law that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin, or religion in public places and most workplaces.
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Freedom Summer |
a 1964 project to register African-American voters in Mississippi.
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Fannie Lou Hamer |
was an American voting rights activist, civil rights leader, and philanthropist. |
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Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
a law that made it easier for African Americans to register to vote by eliminating discriminatory literacy tests and authorizing federal examiners to enroll voters denied at the local level.
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De facto segregation |
racial separation established by practice and custom, not by law.
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De jure segregation |
racial separation established by law.
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Malcolm X |
An African-American political leader of the twentieth century. A prominent Black Muslim, Malcolm X explained the group's viewpoint in a book written by Alex Haley, The Autobiography ofMalcolm X. He was assassinated in 1965. |
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Nation of Islam |
a religious group, popularly known as the Black Muslims, founded by Elijah Muhammad to promote black separatism and the Islamic religion.
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Stokely Carmicheal |
was a Trinidadian-American revolutionary active in the Civil Rights Movement, and later, the global Pan-African movement. |
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Black Power |
a slogan used by Stokely Carmichael in the 1960s that encouraged African-American pride and political and social Leadership.
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Black Panthers |
a militant African-American political organization formed in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to fight police brutality and to provide services in the ghetto.
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Kerner Commission |
A group that was appointed by President Johnson to study the causes of urban violence and that recommended the elimination of de facto segregation in American Society. |
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Civil Rights Act of 1968 |
A law that banned discrimination in Housing.
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Affirmative Action |
A policy that seeks to correct the effects of past discrimination by favoring the groups who were previously disadvantaged.
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