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26 Cards in this Set
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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In 1896 , the supreme Court had ruled Plessy v. Ferguson, that segregation was legal. This established the "separate but equal"
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Jim crow
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segregation laws were nicknamed "Jim crow" laws, including segregated buses and trains,schools,restaurant's,swimming pools,parks,and other public facilities
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de facto segregation
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Areas without segregation laws; segregated by custom and tradition
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de jure segregation
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the legal separation of groups in society
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CORE
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Congress of racial Equality. was found by James Farmer and George Houser in Chicago in 1942
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Sit -in
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CORE began using sit in as means of protest.
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Thurgood Marshall
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From 1939 to 1962 , the NAACP's chief legal counsel was Thurgood Marshall.. After WW2 Marshall focused on ending segregation in public schools
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Brown v Borad of Ed
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On May 17,1954 , the supreme Court ruled unanimously in the case Brown v. Board of education of Topeka , Kansas , that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional and violated the equal protection clause of the Fouteenth Amendment
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Brown v. Board 2
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The supreme Court inadvertently encouraged white resistance when it followed up its decision in Brown v. Board.
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Southern Manifesto
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denounced the Supreme Court's rulling as "a clear abuse of judicial power" and pledged to use "all lawful meams" to reverse the direction
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Rose Parks
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She was arrested on December 1,1955 for not moving while being asked by the bus driver
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Martin Luther King Jr
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he Believed the only moral way to end segregation was through nonviolent passive resistance.
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SCLC
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference was established and led by king. It was African American Ministers .
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Little Rock Nine
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was a group of nine African American students who were admitted to Central High were there was 2,000 white students.
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Freedom Riders
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a group who segregated interstate bus service,travel remained segregated in much of the south
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James Meredith
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On the same day that JFK was inaugurated as president,an African-American Air Force veteran,James M applied for transfer to the University of Mississippi
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Bull Connor
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he arranged the attack on the Freedom Riders ,now was running for mayor of Birmingham
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George Wallace
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Wallace gave the president his opportunity. He was committed yo segregation and at his inauguration he started,"I Draw a line in the dust... and i say, segregation now!..
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March on Washington
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was when Dr. kind gave the speech I Have a Dream and over 200,000 demonstrators of all races walked
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24Th Amendment
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Helped some what by eliminating pill taxes , or fees Paid in order to vote,in federal
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"Bloody Sunday "
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the selma marchs outcome become known as this (voting rights for blacks) whites killed arrested blacks
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Authorized the attomey General to send federal examines to register qualified voters , by passing local officials
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Watts Riots
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5 days after voting rights act a race riot broke out in watts rioturs burned and looked neighborhood
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Malcolm X
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African American Muslim minister and a human rights activist
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Black Panthers
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believed that a revolution was necessary in vs and they urgerd African-American to arm themselves and confront whites
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"Ten point program
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called for black empowerment and end to racial oppression and control of major institutions and services in the African American Community
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