Civil Rights

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Jim Crow Statute

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Separate but equal facilities

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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Court case that upheled separate but equal facilities.

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Compromise of 1876

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Dispute of 1876 Presidential election, Rutherford Hayes wins, on the terms that federal troops removed from confederate states, help industrialize the south, elect a democrat to cabinet, construction of a railroad.

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Reconstruction

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policies implemented between 1863 and 1877 when the nation was focused on winning the Civil War, abolishing slavery, defeating the Confederacy, reconstructing the nation and amending the US Constitution.

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Birth of A Nation

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1915 film about the race relations between blacks and whites

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Peonage

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Person who performs unskilled tasks

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Convict Leasing

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a system of penal labour instituted in the American South after the emancipation of slaves by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865.

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Miscegenation

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sexual relations between races.

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Ole Miss

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University Mississippi, James Meredith first black student.

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James Meredith

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First black student at the Univ. of Mississippi

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Federalism

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political philosophy in which a group of members are bound together with a governing representative head.

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NAACP

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Group fighting court cases, fighting for black rights

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Community Resistance

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Resistance to laws or unfair practices by the community.

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Cooper v. Aaron

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decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, which held that the states were bound by the Court's decisions, and could not choose to ignore them.

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Northern Migration

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Movement of people north in seek for jobs.

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Dixiecrats

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Name given to Southern Democratic leaders that saw Southern way of life

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All Deliberate Speed

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Basically means, when they get around to it.

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Gradualism

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the belief that changes occur, or ought to occur, slowly in the form of gradual steps

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Southern Manifesto

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document written in February-March 1956 by legislators in the United States Congress opposed to racial integration in public places.

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Charles Hamilton Houston

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African American lawyer, Dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP Litigation Director who played a significant role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws and trained future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall.

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Thurgood Marshall

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American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Booker T. Washington

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American educator, orator, author and the dominant leader of the nation's African-American community from the 1890s to his death. Born into slavery and freed by the Civil War in 1865, he led the new Tuskegee Institute, then a teachers' college for blacks. It was to become his base of operations.

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Address to the Cotton States Exposition

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speech given by Booker T. Washington on September 18, 1895, to promote the region to the world and showcase products and new technologies as well as to encourage trade with Latin America.

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Atlanta Compromise

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an address on the topic of race relations given by black leader Booker T. Washington on September 18, 1895.

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W.E.B. Dubois

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American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor.

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Gunnar Myrdal

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known for his 1944 study, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, which influenced the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education to outlaw racial segregation in public schools.

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An American Dilemma

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The study by Gunnar Myrdral, helping to aid the Brown v. Board of Ed Decision

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Gradual but Direct

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The idea that ask for what you want, but expect it gradually.

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14th Amendment

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gave rights to slaves

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Equal protection

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part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, provides that "(n)o state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws"

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Earl Warren

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14th Chief Justice of the United States and is to date the only person elected Governor of California three times

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Fred vinson

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served the United States in all three branches of government and was the most prominent member of the Vinson political family.

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Brown V. Board of Ed I &II

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I- Reverse segregation in schools
II-County School Board of Prince Edward County's decision to close all local, public schools and provide vouchers to attend private schools were declared constitutionally impermissible and violations under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Lynching

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Hanging of people due to being black

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Populist Party

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farmers of the midwestpromoted collective economic action by farmers and achieved widespread popularity in the South and Great Plains

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Negro Domination

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Nativism

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favors the interests of certain established inhabitants of an area or nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants.

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segregation

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separation of different racial groups in daily life

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niagara movement

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black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter.

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disenfranchisement

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revocation of the right of suffrage (the right to vote) to a person or group of people

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Smith v. Allwright

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voting rights and, by extension, racial desegregation. It overturned the Democratic Party's use of all-white primaries in Texas, and other states where the party used the rule.

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Progressive Era

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advocated a wide range of economic, political, social, and moral reforms.

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A. Phillip Randolph

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African-American civil rights leader and the founder of both the March on Washington Movement and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a landmark for labor and particularly for African-American labor organizing.

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Strom Thurmond

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American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United States Senator

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Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute

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private, historically black university located in Tuskegee, Alabama, United States. It is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund. The campus forms the Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site, a National Historic Landmark.

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harry truman

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president who backed civil rights initiatives.

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executive order 8802

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to prohibit racial discrimination in the national defense industry. It was the first federal law to promote equal opportunity and prohibit employment discrimination in the United States.

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Executive Order 9981

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establishing equality of treatment and opportunity in the Armed Services for people of all races, religions, or national origins.

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Dwight Eisenhower

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President who advocated for integration of schools.

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101st Airborne

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U.S. Army at Central High , in little Rock

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Orville Faubus

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Little Rock Crisis of 1957, when he used the National Guard to stop black Americans from attending Little Rock Central High School as part of federally ordered racial desegregation.

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Freedmans Bureau

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U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed refugees of the American Civil War.

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Powell v. Alabama

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determined that in a capital trial, the defendant must be given access to counsel upon his or her own request as part of due process.

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Norris v. Alabama

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Scottsboro Boys trial

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Brown v. Mississippi

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Court case that ruled that a defendant's confessions that is extracted by police violence cannot be entered as evidence and violates the Due Process Clause.

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Freed slaves in certain states

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Leo Frank

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Only jew lynched in the south

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Jackie Robinson

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first negro baseball player

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Black Codes

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laws passed on the state and local level mainly in the rural Southern states in the United States to limit the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans.

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Shelley v. Kraemer

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In 1945, a black family by the name of Shelley purchased a house in St. Louis, Missouri. At the time of purchase, they were unaware that a restrictive covenant had been in place on the property since 1911. The restrictive covenant barred "people of the Negro or Mongolian Race" from owning the property.

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Ross Barnett

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Democratic governor of the U.S. state of Mississippi from 1960 to 1964.

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The Souls of Black Folk

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classic work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology, and a cornerstone of African-American literary history.