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27 Cards in this Set
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Thurgood Marshall |
Fought segregation and discrimination while a lawyer with NAACP, became known as "Mr. Civil Rights" - won 29 of 32 cases before the Supreme Court |
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Brown v. Board of Education |
separate but equal doctrine is unconstitutional, desegregation of public schools |
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Rosa Parks |
African American woman who would not give up her seat on a Montgomery bus |
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Montgomery bus boycott |
African Americans refused to ride buses for 381 days, Supreme Court orders desegregation of public transit |
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Martin Luther King Jr. |
leader of the Civil rights Movement |
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CORE( Congress of Racial Equality) |
used sit ins during 1940s , leader was James Farmer |
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SCLC ( Southern Christian Leadership Conference) |
introduced the concept of nonviolent protest ( boycotts, marches, demonstrations and sit ins) |
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SNCC ( Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) |
student organization which gave youth a voice in the Civil Rights Movement |
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National Urban League |
helped people of color find jobs and homes |
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sit in |
protest technique in which protesters occupied establishments and demanded service |
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Freedom Rides |
Civil Rights activists rode buses to make sure interstate buses, waiting rooms and public facilities were desegregated |
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James Meredith |
enrolled at University of Mississippi and was first black to go to classes there |
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
legislation that banned discrimination in all public facilities |
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freedom summer |
registering as many African Americans to vote as possible to sway Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act |
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Fannie Lou Harper |
the voice of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party |
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Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
legislation that enabled more African Americans to vote |
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de jure segregation |
segregation created by law |
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de facto segregation |
segregation caused by social conditions |
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24th amendment |
eliminated poll taxes as a requirement to vote |
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Malcolm X |
demand complete control over your community, livelihood, and culture |
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Nation of Islam/Black Nationalists |
preached self help and to separate from white society |
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Stokely Carmichael |
leader of SNCC
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black power |
African Americans should unite, take pride in their heritage and control their own organizations |
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Little Black Panthers |
political party started by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton advocated self help and defense of black rights |
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Kerner Commission |
find the cause urban violence ...white racism |
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Civil Rights Act of 1968 |
ended discrimination in housing |
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affirmative action |
to make special efforts to hire and enroll groups that have suffered discrimination |
