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18 Cards in this Set
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governmental actions designed to help minorities overcome the effects of past discrimination and compete on an equal basis with the majority
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affirmative action
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the rights of all citizens to legal, social, and economic equality
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civil rights
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fees required for casting a ballot
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poll taxes
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a requirement that citizens demonstrate their fitness to vote by passing a reading or comprehension test
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literacy tests
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a clause that exempted people whose ancestors were entitled to vote in 1886 from the literacy test
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grandfather clause
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accommodations for blacks and whites in public facilities such as public transportation
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separate but equal
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ruled that separate public facilities for people of different races satisfied the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause, provided they were "equal"
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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one of the most important civil rights decisions; Supreme Court overturned the separate but equal (facilities) are unequal
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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deliberately disobeying laws viewed as morally repugnant
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civil disobedience
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a technique of civil disobedience where individuals peacefully submit to arrest for refusing to obey laws they consider immoral
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passive resistance
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a landmark law that outlawed racial segregation in schools and public places, and barred discrimination in employment based on sex
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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used mainly by southern states to establish racial segregation in all public facilities and to disenfranchise African Americans by requiring them to pass prerequisites to voting
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Jim Crow Laws
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authorized the federal government to ensure that eligible voters were not denied access to the ballot
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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discrimination by law
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de jure discrimination
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by fact discrimination
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de facto discrimination
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the deliberate destruction of a population
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genocide
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the right to vote
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suffrage
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which specifically extended to disabled citizens the civil right and protections that were the cornerstone of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
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Americans with Disabilities Act
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