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32 Cards in this Set
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De jury segregation
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Segregation that is imposed by law
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De facto segregation
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Segregation by unwritten custom or tradition
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CORE
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Organized protests against segregation
Henry David and Mohandas Gandhi |
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An American Delema
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A publication that brought American prejudice to the forefront
Written by Gunnar Myrdal |
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NAACP
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The largest and most powerful civil rights organization
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Thurgood Marshall
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An African American lawyer that challenged the legality of segregation
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Sweaty v. Painter
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Where the supreme court ruled that Texas had violated the the 14th amendment
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Earl Warren
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The Chief Justice that spoke out against segregation
Wrote the Brown Decision |
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The Brown Decision
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one of the most significant and controversial documents against segregation
Earl Warren |
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Brown II
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Where the court called for the implementation of its decision
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The Southern Manifesto
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ruled that the Brown ruling was unlawful
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
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Established the US Civil Rights Commission to investigate violations of civil rights
Passed by Congress and Eisenhower |
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Rosa Parks
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Refused to give up seat on bus
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Montgomery bus boycott
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the black community refused to ride buses as way to express opposition to Park's arrest
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Martin Luther King
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A baptist minister that protested segregation, but wanted that protest to be nonviolent
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Sit-in
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refusing to leave a certain restaurant, beach, or library to protest segregation
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
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wanted to create a grass-roots movement that involved all classes of African Americans in the struggle to defeat white racism and to obtain equality
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Freedom Ride
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African Americans set off from Washington D.C. for New Orleans and on the way they sat in the front of the bus and used "white" restrooms in bus stations
This was staged by CORE |
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James Meredith
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An Air Force verteran who sought enrolled in the all-white University of MIssissippi and was the first AA to graduate
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Medgar Evers
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A civil rights activist who was instrumental in desegregating Universities
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March on Washington
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Took place on August 28, 1963. It was a massive demonstration in Washington, D.C. that brought together the major civil rights groups
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Passed by the Senate and sign by President Johnson, it outlawed discrimination in public places and employment based on race, religion, or national origin
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Filibuster
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tactic by which senators give long speeches to hold up legislative business
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
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Enforced the Civil Rights Act and investigating charges of job discrimination
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Fanni Lou Hamer
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one of MFDP's leaders
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Freedom Summer
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A campaign that registered African Americans to vote and formed the mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)
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Voting Rights Act
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Passed by congress and banned literacy test and empowered the federal government to oversee voting registration and elections in states that discriminated against minorities
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Kerner Commission or National Advisory Commission of Civil Disorders
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concluded that long-term racial discrimination stood as the single most important cause of violence. The commission also recommended establishing and expanding federal programs aimed at over coming the problems of America's urban ghettos
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Nation of Islam
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A religious sect headed by Elijah Muhammad
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Black Power
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Movement in the 1960s that urged African Americans to used their collective political and economic power to gain equality
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Black Panthers
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organization fi militant African Americans founded in 1966
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Malcom X
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An African American radical
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