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13 Cards in this Set
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Segregation |
the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things. |
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Integration |
bring (people or groups) into equal participation in. |
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Boycott |
A group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies |
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SCLC |
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, churches link together to inform blacks about changes in the Civil Rights Movement, led by MLK Jr., was a success |
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SNCC |
Student non-violent coordinating committee, also known as 'Snick.' |
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Sit-in |
Nonviolent protests in which a person sits and refuses to leave. |
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Freedom Rides |
Freedom Riders rode in interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the ruling of unsegregated public places |
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Brown v. Board of Education |
Court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional, overturned Plessey v Ferguson. |
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Plessy v. Ferguson |
a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal. |
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Jim Crow Laws |
State level legal codes of segregation, such as literacy requirements and poll taxes |
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Civil Disobedience |
the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest. |
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Unconstitutional |
not in accordance with a political constitution, especially the US Constitution, or with procedural rules. |
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White Supremacist |
a person who believes that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that whitepeople should have control over people of other races. |
