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12 Cards in this Set
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What is the seperation of blacks and whites? (it happened in the US)
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segregation
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What laws were unfair to blacks?
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The Jim Crow laws
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First sucessful court case was between who?
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Brown vs board of education
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was court ruled segregation is schools and violated the constotution?
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The Surpreme Court
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Who refused to give her bus seat to a white man and was arrested?
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Rosa Parks
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People ____ the buses
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boycott
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Who said the buses could not be segregated?
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the Surpreme Court
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who tried to change things in America thru a non violent way until he was assasinated?
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Martin Luther King Jr
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what were slow about integregating? and why?
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Schools because the law said "with all deliberate speed"
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what govenor called the national gaurd to keep blacks from attending the highschool?
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Govenor Faubus of Arkansas
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in 1964 what did congress pass? and what did it do?
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The civil rights act- outlawing discrimination on the basis of skin color
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in 1965 what did congress pass? and what did it do?
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The coting rights act- gave blacks the right to vote
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