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15 Cards in this Set
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Jackie Robinson |
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson was an American professional baseball second baseman who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. Pg #1011 |
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Thurgood Marshall |
Thurgood Marshall 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. Pg #1011 |
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Little Rock nine |
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Pg #1014 |
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Greenboro sitin |
Sitting for Justice: Woolworth's Lunch Counter. On February 1, 1960, four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina, and politely asked for service. Their request was refused. When asked to leave, they remained in their seats. Pg #1018 |
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Freedom rides |
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States. Pg #1022 |
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Albany movement |
The Albany Movement was a desegregation coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, on November 17, 1961, by local activists, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Pg #1023 |
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Bloody Sunday |
On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma. Pg #1035 |
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James Meredith |
James Howard Meredith is a Civil Rights Movement figure, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran. Pg #1024 |
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Eugene bull Connor |
Theophilus Eugene Connor, known as Bull Connor, was an American politician who served as an elected Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, for more than two decades. Pg #1026 |
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Letter from Birmingham jail |
The Letter from Birmingham Jail, also known as the Letter from Birmingham City Jail and The Negro Is Your Brother, is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr. The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism. Pg #1025 |
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Civil rights act |
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Pg #1029 |
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Voting rights act |
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. Pg #1035 |
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Mendez v westminster |
Mendez v westminster was a 1947 federal court case that challenged Mexican remedial schools in Orange County, California. Pg #1035 |
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Operation wetback |
Operation Wetback was an immigration law enforcement initiative created by Joseph Swing, the Director of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), in cooperation with the Mexican government. Pg #1036 |
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National Congress of American Indians |
National Congress of American Indians. The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) is an American Indian and Alaska Native indigenous rights organization. It was founded in 1944 to represent the tribes and resist federal government pressure for termination of tribal rights and assimilation of their people. Pg #1039 |
