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23 Cards in this Set
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The Other America |
1962 book by Michael Harrington that reveals urban poverty for black families |
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Hernandez v. Texas |
SCOTUS case that extends 14th Amendment rights to Mexican-Americans |
Mexico |
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Jim Crow Laws |
Southern segregation of the races |
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De Jure Segregation |
Segregation by imposing laws |
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De Facto Segregation |
Segregation by unwritten custom |
Just a fact of life |
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Thurgood Marshall |
African-American attorney who led a legal challenge against segregation for NAACP |
Not a bad guy |
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Brown v. Board of Education |
1954 SCOTUS case desegregating schools and overturning Please v. Ferguson (SCOTUS case declaring separate but okay is ok) |
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Montgomery Bus Boycott |
One year boycott of buses in Montgomery protesting Rosa Parks arrest |
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MLK |
Baptist minister and civil rights leader that calls for non-violent protests |
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C. O. R. E |
Congress Of Racial Equality is a civil rights group that advocates direct, yet non-violent methods of protest like "The Freedom Ride" |
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Freedom Ride |
Bus trip staged by CORE to defy segregational codes |
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James Meredith |
Helped NAACP win desegregation case against "Ole Miss" |
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T. Eugene Connor |
Birmingham Public Safety Commissioner that ordered the use of police dogs and fire hoses against protesters |
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The March of Washington D. C |
August 28, 1963 200,000 Americans March to pressure Congress into passing Civil Rights legislation - MLK gives "I have a dream" speech |
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
Bans segregation in public accommodations (outlaws Jim Crow laws |
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Freedom Summer |
A massive 1964 affort to register African-American voters in Mississippi |
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Bloody Sunday |
First violent confrontation during the March on Selma |
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Voting Rights Act of 1964 |
Banned literacy tests for voter registration |
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24th Amendment |
1964 constitutional amendment banning poll taxes |
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The Kerner Commission |
Govt study that attempted to determine the causes of the 1970 riots |
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Malcolm X |
Prominent minister of the nation of Islam, promotes violent protests |
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Black Power |
Term coined by SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael referring to African-Americans that should use economic and political power |
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The Black Panther Party |
Civil Rights group of militants that believed African-Americans needed to take back control over their communities |
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