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45 Cards in this Set
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Plessy v Ferguson |
"separate but equal" ruling |
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Brown v Board of Education of Topeka |
ended school segregation |
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Little Rock Nine |
nine black students who had to be protected by federal troops in order to attend school |
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What 1971 court ruling helped end segregation? |
implement of racial quotas for school districts |
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NAACP |
group of lawyers who worked through the court system to make changes |
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Thurgood Marshall |
lawyer who became first black Supreme Court Judge |
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Rosa Parks |
refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. |
main peaceful leader of the civil rights movement |
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
worked on nonviolent protests |
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Montgomery Bus Boycott |
black people in Montgomery refused to ride the buses, creating serious economic damage to the city and being a huge success for civil rights |
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sit-ins |
people typically sitting and refusing to leave until their demands were met; nonviolent |
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Freedom Riders |
people who took a bus tour through the south to protest; an extremely dangerous task that many bravely took on |
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Jackie Robinson |
first professional African American baseball player |
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Malcolm X |
originally lead civil rights through violence, joined Islam religion and went to nonviolence. |
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Black Power Movement |
call for African American pride |
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Civil Rights Act of 1957 |
created commission to investigate people whose rights were violated |
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
end voter discrimination; mainly aimed at Jim Crow Laws |
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Civil Rights Act of 1968 |
prohibits discrimination in selling/renting homes |
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Executive Order 11246 |
lead to a quota system for minorities |
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Affirmative Action |
improved opportunities for people using a quota system |
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reverse discrimination |
the quota system |
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Public Employment Act |
10% of federal contracts is reserved for minority firms |
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24th Amendment |
outlawed Poll Tax |
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Gloria Steinmen |
one leader of the women movement |
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National Women's Movement |
official name given to women's movement |
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Feminism |
belief that men and women are equal |
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Equal Pay Act |
outlawed different pay scales based on gender |
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Comparable Worth |
the belief that men and women should be payed equally if they are doing the same skill |
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Title IX |
all schools must give equal opportunities for education and extra curricular activities |
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Equal Credit Opportunity Act |
creditors can't discriminate |
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Roe v Wade |
legalized abortion |
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Russell Means |
leader of Native American rights movement |
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American Indian Movement |
official name given to the Native American rights movement |
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Self-Determination Act of 1975 |
Tribal governments may administer their own support programs and determine rules for their lands |
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Cesar Chavez |
leader of the migrant workers' union |
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Bilingual Education |
instruction in a student's native language is required |
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Age Discrimination and Employment Act |
protects people 40 and up from discrimination |
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Disabled Americans Rehabilitation Act |
accessible facilities and equal public education |
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De Jure |
by law |
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De facto |
by custom |
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Describe JFK's death |
he was assassinated supposedly by Lee Harvy Oswald alone |
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Hippies |
flower children, rejected materialism |
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Commune |
groups of people who shared everything and dropped out of every day life |
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Watergate Scandal |
Nixon, due to paranoia, wired the democratic headquarters and resigned before being impeached |
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OPEC |
created an embargo that began America's first oil shortage |
