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11 Cards in this Set
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Southern state laws that separated whites and blacks in public places
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Jim Crow Laws
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These created separate spaces for whites and blacks and institutionalized discrimination and fed racist attitudes
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Migration of Blacks to the North from the South
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Great Migration
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Migration allowed Blacks to hold factory jobs which led to better economic opportunity and they were not barred from voting in the North
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Minister and leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Later the movement nationally
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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The movement involved thousands of ordinary people but needed strong leaders to guide activities
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Non-violent resistance, in the form of boycotts or marches, to unfair or immoral laws
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civil disobedience
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Thousands were moved to act when they believed conditions were unjust. This forced businesses and politicians to rethink their positions leading to a change
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1896 Supreme Court decision that stated "separate but equal" public facilities were legal
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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This decision led to a sharply segregated society in the South
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Unanimous 1954 Supreme Court decision that stated "separate facilities are inherently unequal"
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Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka Kansas
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This decision begins the process of desegregating public schools which eventually leads to other decisions which desegregate society generally
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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SCLC civil rights organization that pushed for equal rights for blacks
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Organizations like SCLC helped to organize non violent demonstrations
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Pictures, film, recordings of speeches
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The Media
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The media was instrumental in raising awareness to the plight of blacks during the movement to ordinary middle class Americans who were sometimes horrified at the images they saw on the evening news broadcasts
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President who first proposed the 1964 Civil Rights Bill
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John F. Kennedy
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Kennedy finally took a stand on civil rights as violence mounted against blacks and white civil rights activists in the South
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President who helped push the 1964 Civil Rights Bill and the 1965 Voting Rights Act through Congress
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Johnson was a skilled politician with Senate experience and he took a stand in favor of civil rights the moment he became President
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NAACP secretary, seamstress, wife, and church member in Montgomery, Alabama who refused to stand on city bus
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Rosa Parks
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The Black community rallied around Rosa Parks and committed themselves to a boycott of the city buses that lasted over a year and eventually led to desegregated buses and a greater sense of pride
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