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37 Cards in this Set
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13th amendment |
1865 - Abolishes Slavery |
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14th amendmant |
1868 - Grants Citizenship to Former Slaves |
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15th amendmant |
1870 - Grants Black Suffrage Voting |
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1619 |
slaves first brought to America |
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Black Pathers |
Protected themselves/ believed in self action and protection |
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Brown VS BOE |
Desegregated Schools, Separate but Equal is inherently unequal and thus illegal |
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Bull Connor |
Chief Of Police, Birmingham. Led Riots |
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Carl Stokes |
First Elected Black Mayor in Cleveland |
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Civil Rights Act 1964 |
Outlawed Racial discrimination and allowed more blacks to vote |
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Declaration of Independence |
"All Men Are Created Equal" "The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" |
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Dwight Eisenhower |
President from 1953 till 1961 Supported desegregation but had a passive approach to action |
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Earl Warren |
Judge that stated "Separate But Equal is inherently unequal and thus ilegal" |
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Emancipation Proclaimation |
Granted Slaves Rights. "all slaves were free |
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Emmett Till |
Brutally Murdered by KKK in 1955. sparked a change |
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Fredrick Douglass |
Escaped slave who became speech writer for Lincoln |
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Great Migration North |
Provided Hope 1920-30 1 Million Blacks moved north for jobs No Jim Crow Laws less segregation better living |
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I have a dream |
Speech by MLK in 1963 |
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James Earl Ray |
Assassinated Martin Luther King on Hotel Balcony |
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Jim Crow Laws |
Segregation Laws (named after a Stand Up Act) |
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John F Kennedy |
Accused of being too cautious did not want to upset white southern politicians |
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KKK |
WASP - LYNCHINGS -XENOPHOBIA |
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Letter From Birmingham Jail |
MLK wrote letters while in prison |
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Little Rock 9 - Elizabeth Eckford |
1957 9 students sent to all white school - military protection- liz first black to go to white school |
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Lynchings |
Carried out by the KKK Black people Killed cause of race Publicly display power and intimidate blacks |
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Malcom X |
Argued that MLK too moderate, Slave name, Take own freedom, Violence |
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Marcus Garvey |
was a charismatic leader from Africa whose Idea was to relocate Blacks to their homeland in Africa and coined the term Black is Beautiful |
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Martin Luther King Jr |
Leader of non violent civil disobedience campaign. peace meet with violence |
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Montgomery Bus Boycott |
Squeezed company into letting blacks and whites riding together due to loss of business. over 12 months |
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NAACP |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored people segregation is the way society tells a group of humans that they are infherere to others |
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Plessy Vs Ferguson |
Separate But Equal is Legal |
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Riots Against Racism |
Black Power led to riots 1965-67 inner city LA, Newark Detroit, Chicago |
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Rosa Parks |
did not want to sit at back of bus |
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Segregation (public facilities) |
policy keeping blacks and whites separated (hospitals, education, etc) |
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Stokely Carmichael |
Started the Black Power Movement (borrowed ideas from Marcus Garvey) |
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The Great March |
250,000 march showing unity and white support |
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Washington DC |
capital of us. parliament. |
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Rhetoric VS Reality |
desegregation was not a reality |
