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21 Cards in this Set
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Jim Crow |
Laws or Policies enforcing segregation |
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NAACP |
Ensures equality of colored people |
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Plessy vs. Ferguson |
Case that upheld the "separate but equal doctrine" |
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Brown vs. Board of Education |
A case that was requesting non segregated schools |
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Montgomery Bus Boycott |
African Americans refused to sit in segregated buses |
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Rosa Parks |
Refused her seat to a white woman |
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Claudette Colvin |
Civil Rights activist who refused her seat to a white woman |
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Sit-ins |
Form of protest started in the 1960s |
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SNCC |
Formed to give younger blacks a voice in the movement |
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Freedom Riders |
Both white and African American people chose to sit next to each other violating the Jim Crow laws |
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Black Panthers |
Practiced self defense against government |
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Children's March |
Children who walked the Civil Rights movement |
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Occupation of Alcatraz |
Native Americans wanted to take back Alcatraz their native land |
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Second Wave of Feminism |
Peak of the movement |
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Miss America Pageant Protest, 1968 |
Protest against the beauty standards or women |
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Title IX |
Prohibits sexual discrimination in school |
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Roe vs. Wade |
An issue to ban prohibition of abortion |
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Equal Rights Amendment |
To guarantee equal rights for women |
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United Farm Workers movement |
To get equal pay and better living standards |
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Cesar Chavez |
Labor leader for the United Farm workers |
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Dolores Huerta |
Labor leader for the United Farm workers |