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25 Cards in this Set
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De Jure Segregation |
Segregation that is imposed by the law |
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De facto segregation |
Segregation by unwritten custom or tradition. |
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Thurgood Marshall |
African American lawyer who led the legal team that challenged segregation in the courts; later named a supreme Court Justice |
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Earl Warren |
Supreme Court chief justice who wrote the decision that ended segregation in public schools. |
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Civil Rights Act of 1957 |
Law that established a federal civil rights commission |
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Rosa Parks |
African American women arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person, leading to a prolonged bus boycott. |
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Montgomery bus boycott |
A 1955-1956 protest by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, against racial segregation in the bus system. |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Baptist preacher and civil rights leader who advocated nonviolent protest against segregation |
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Sit-in |
A form of protest where participants sit and refuse to move |
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SNCC |
The student nonviolent coordinating committee, a grass-roots civil rights organization |
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Freedom ride |
1961protest by activist who rode buses through southern states to test the ban on rider segregation on interstate buses |
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James Meredith |
Black air force veteran who enrolled at the all white university of Mississippi |
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Medgar Evers |
Civil rights activist instrumental on the effort to desegregation the University of Mississippi |
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March on Washington |
1963 demonstration in which 200,000 people rallied for economic equality and civil rights |
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Filibuster |
Tactic by which senators give long speeches in order to delay action on legislation |
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
Out laced discrimination in public places and employment based on race, religion or natural origin. |
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Freedom Summer |
1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi |
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Fannie Lou Hamer |
One of the leaders of the mississippi freedom democratic party |
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Voting Rights Act |
Law that banned literacy test and unenpowerer the federal government to oversee voter registration |
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Twenty-fourth Amendment |
Constitutional amendment that banned the poll tax as a voting requirement |
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Kerner Commission |
Group appointed by President Johnson to determine the causes of the race riots in America cities in the 1960s |
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Malcolm X |
African American radical leader |
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Nation of Islam |
African American religious organization that advocated separation of the races |
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Black Power |
A 1960s movement started by Stokely Carmichael that urged African Americans to use their collective political and economic power to gain equality |
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Black Panthers |
An organization of militant African Americans founded in 1966 |
