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23 Cards in this Set
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Thurgood Marshall |
Had a team of the best law students |
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Brown vs. Board of education of Topeka |
case in which the Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” education for black and white students was unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks |
Woman who changed the lives for black people in a good way. |
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Martin Luther King Jr. |
Leader of the black people |
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
an organization formed in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders to work for civil rights through nonviolent means.
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Student Nonvoilent Coordinating Commitee |
organization formed in 1960 to coordinate sit-ins and other protests and to give young blacks a larger role in the civil rights movement.
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Sit in |
demonstration used by African Americans to protest discrimination, in which the protesters sit down in a segregated business and refuse to leave until they are served.
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Freedom Riders |
one of the civil rights activists who rode buses through the South in the early 1960s to challenge segregation.
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James Meredith |
Air force veteran who one a federal court case that allowed him to enroll in an all white university of Mississippi |
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Civil rights Act of 1964 |
law that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin, or religion in public places and most workplaces. |
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Freedom Summer |
1964 project to register African-American voters in Mississippi.
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Fannie Lou Hammer |
the voice of the 1964 Democratic National Convention |
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Voting Rights acts of 1965 |
law that made it easier for African Americans to register to vote by eliminating discriminatory literacy tests and authorizing federal examiners to enroll voters denied at the local level.
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De Facto segregation |
racial separation established by practice and custom, not by law.
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De jure segregaton |
racial separation established by law.
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Malcom X |
One of the leaders who told his followers to take control of their communties |
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National of Islam |
religious group, popularly known as the Black Muslims, founded by Elijah Muhammad to promote black separatism and the Islamic religion.
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Stokely Carmichael |
one of the leaders to to lead their followers in a march to finish what Meredith started |
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Black Power |
slogan used by Stokely Carmichael in the 1960s that encouraged African-American pride and political and social Leadership.
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Black Panthers |
militant African-American political organization formed in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to fight police brutality and to provide services in the ghetto
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Kerner commision |
group that was appointed by President Johnson to study the causes of urban violence and that recommended the elimination of de facto segregation in American Society.
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Civil rights act of 1968 |
law that banned discrimination in Housing
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Affirmative action |
policy that seeks to correct the effects of past discrimination by favoring the groups who were previously disadvantaged
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