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10 Cards in this Set
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Jim Crow |
System of laws in the southern,mandated racial segregation |
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NAACP |
-National association for the advancement of colored people -Organized to help with cases |
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Plessy vs. Ferguson |
"Separate but equal" , saying you could segregate. |
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Brown vs. Board |
desegregated schools in some ways, like |
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Montgomery Bus Boycott |
-segregated bus seating, so African Americans refused to ride buses in Montgomery to protest for segregated seating. |
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Rosa Parks |
First person to refuse to give up her seat |
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Claudette Colvin |
Young woman that was pregnant, sitting on the bus and there weren't enough seats left, bus driver try to make her get out of her seat to give it to white man,she refused to get up. |
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Sit-ins |
4 black students from a college in North Carolina sat down at Woolworth lunch counter |
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SNCC |
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the group wanted to gain freedom through non-violence |
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Freedom Riders |
Civil rights activist who rode buses into segregated southern US to challenge the non-enforcement of the US Supreme Court decisions |
