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31 Cards in this Set
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NAACP |
Legal Approach to ending discrimination |
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Jackie Robinson |
Broke the color barrier in M |
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Brown V Board of Education |
Separate but equal facilities are inherently unequal |
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Earl Warren |
Supreme Court justice that wrote the decision on paper that Separate but Equal is illegal |
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Little Rock Nine |
9 African American students chosen to integrate an all white school in Little Rock
Parents caused the most trouble |
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President Eisenhower |
Forced the Little Rock integration to happen |
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Civil Right Act of 1957 |
Government power to investigate civil rights violations |
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Rosa Parks |
Huge member of NAACP Knew she would be arrested Did it to start a bus boycott |
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Montgomery Bus Boycott |
Ruled unconstitutional to segregate busses
Lasted 381 days Lost 35000 fares per day MLK was the leader |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Delivered speech that sparked African Americans to join the bus boycott |
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Sit-in |
Sitting in a restaurant, refusing to leave until they're served |
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SNCC |
Student based organization
Freedom Summer - Volunteers to help register African Americans
MFDP - Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party |
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Freedom Summer |
Volunteers to help register African Americans |
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March on Selma |
Bloody Sunday State troopers fired upon protesters crossing Edmund Pettus Bridge |
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Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
Banned literacy tests and allowed federal government to restrict and oversee elections in states that discriminated against minorities |
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Twenty-Fourth Amendment |
Banned Poll Tax |
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Kerner Commission |
Established by Johnson to determine cause of Riots Considered failure due to no action being take |
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Malcolm X |
African American radical Prominent leader of Nation of Islam Black Power |
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Nation of Islam |
Demanded separation of races Malcolm X is most prominent leader |
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Black Power |
Youth movement away from the principle of nonviolence |
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Black Panthers |
Group of young, militant African Americans Armed patrols of neighborhood to protect against police abuse and antipoverty programs Known for carrying shotguns and wearing black leather jackets |
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Affirmative Action |
Supposed to even the playing field in education, saved seats secretly in university in exchange for monetary bonuses |
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CORE |
Congress of Racial Equality
Freedom Rides sponsor |
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SCLC |
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Formed as a result of Montgomery Bus Boycott |
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Freedom Rides |
Since interstate travel by bus was legally found to be illegal to segregate, activists tested the federal willingness to enforce it |
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John F Kennedy |
Freed King from Jail Elected with help of African American Voters Worked out a deal with police to protect Freedom Riders |
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James Meredith |
Air Force veteran that sought to enroll at Ole Miss Allowed to do so with the help of NAACP winning a court case |
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Birmingham, AL freedom marches |
Targeted for being most segregated city in South Lead by SCLC and Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Eugene "Bull" Conner |
Would not tolerate demonstrations anymore. Used fire hoses and police dogs to stop protests |
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March on Washington |
Motivated congress to pass civil rights legislation |
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Civil Right Act if 1964 |
Banned segregation in public places Gave govt ability to compel states to integrate Outlawed discrimination in employment Established EEOC |
