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29 Cards in this Set
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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"Separate but Equal" accommodations for whites and blacks
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Jim Crow Laws
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Black and white facilities remain seperate |
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Thurgood Marshall
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Lawyer that won 29 of 32 Civil right court cases against the Supreme Court |
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Brown vs. Board of Edu.
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Father charged the Board of Education for violating his daughters rights |
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Brown II
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An order that school desegregation to happen quickly |
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Little Rock 9 |
African American students who volunteered to integrate Central High School
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KKK |
An organization that used terror strategies to restore white supremacy |
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Where blacks in the "colored" section would not move seats for whites |
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Rosa Parks
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Seamstress and NAACP officer who didn't move, when the bus was full, to the back
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MLKJr. |
Pastor who lead organizations for the civil rights movement. |
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SNCC
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
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SCLC |
Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
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Sit-ins
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African American protesters who wouldn't leave until they were served
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Freedom Riders
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Group of people that went on a bus trip across the south to convince the Kennedy Administration to enforce the law |
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MFDP
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The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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Eugene "Bull" Connors
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A Birmingham police commissioner that arrested 959 children
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
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Enforced civil rights laws
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Banned discrimination and helped speed up the process of integration in schools |
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Freedom Summer |
CORE and SNCC workers registering blacks to vote
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Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
Allowed voting and got rid of literacy tests |
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24 Amendment
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Prohibited any poll taxes in elections for federal officials
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Selma March |
A 50 mile protest march from Selma to Montgomery
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De Jure segregation |
Segregation by law |
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De facto segregation |
Segregation that exists by practice or custom
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Watts Riot |
Worst riot that occurred in L.A.
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Malcolm X
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Civil Rights leader that studied to Islam and opposed MLKJ
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Black Power
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A call for black people to begin to define their own goals and to lead their own organizations |
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Black Panthers |
Political party to fight police brutality in the ghetto
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Affirmative Action |
Making special efforts to hire discriminated groups
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