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Ch 29 Flashcards

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What did the civil rights act of 1875 do and when was it outlawed?

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Outlawed segregation, ruled unconstitutional in 1883

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This case called to separate but equal facilities for blacks and led to Jim Crow laws

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Plessy vs. ferguson

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How did WWII help the civil rights movement?

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It let blacks and women get jobs and blacks in the military fended discriminatory policies

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This man was a civil rights lawyer and the first black Supreme Court justice

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Thurgood Marshall

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This was a case that ruled that school segregation is illegal

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Brown vs. board of education of Topeka

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What was the premise of brown vs. the board of education?

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Linda Brown was denied admission to a white school 4 blocks away so she had to walk 21 blocks to a black school

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What was the response to the ruling in brown vs. board of Ed?

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Most schools desegregated, but for others the KKK reappeared

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This was a group of 9 students who volunteered to integrate central high school in September 1957

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Little Rock Nine

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How did Arkansas governor arval taubus respond to the 9?

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He ordered the national guard to block them

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this lady was a seamstress and NAACP member who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in dec 1955. She was arrested

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Rosa Parks

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This man was a baptist pastor who organized the bus boycott and had them integrated in 381 days

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MLK

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This organization’s goal was to carry out nonviolent protests

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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This organization’s goal was to give younger blacks a larger role in the movement

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Student nonviolent coordinating committee

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This is when people go to a segregated service and refuse to leave until they are served

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Sit in

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These were civil rights activists that rode busses through the south in the early 60’s to challenge segregation

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Freedom riders

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What happened with the freedom riders?

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Kennedy arranged for US Marshall’s to protect riders and then segregation was banned on interstate travel facilities

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This man won a federal court case allowing him to enroll in a class at old Mississippi university

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James Meredith

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What happened with Meredith?

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The governor refused to enroll him so JFK sent Marshall’s to safely escort him

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What did media coverage on the children’s march cause?

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Officials of Birmingham to end segregation

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What was the purpose of the match in DC?

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Convince officials to pass a civil rights bill

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When was the march in DC?

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This was a 1964 project to register black voters in Mississippi

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Freedom summer

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This man made a New Democratic Party (Mississippi freedom Democratic Party) at the 1964 dem convention

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Fannie Lou Hamer

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This abolished the poll tax

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24th amendment

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This was a voting campaign that turned violent, leading to a new voting rights act in march 1965
Selma campaign
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This eliminated literacy tests and authorized federal examiners to enroll voters denied at the local level
Voting rights act of 1965
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When did LBJ sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
July 1964
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What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 include?
prohibited discrimination of gender, race, religion, and origin. Also, citizens had the right to enter all public accommodations
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What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 include?
prohibited discrimination of gender, race, religion, and origin. Also, citizens had the right to enter all public accommodations
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This is racial segregation established by practice and custom, not by law
De facto segregation
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This is racial segregation established by law
De jure segregation
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How was de facto segregation intensified?
The great migration
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This is when whites moved to the suburbs
White flight
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This was a 1965 riot that killed 34
Watts (LA) riot
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Where did LBJ's great society funding move to?
Vietnam war
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This man urged blacks to take control of their communities
Malcolm X
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This is a religious group made of black Muslims that Malcolm X belonged to
Nation of Islam
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What about Malcolm x frightened most people?
He advocated armed self defense
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When and where was Malcolm x killed?
Harlem, 1965
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This man was a militant SNCC leader
Stokely Carmichael
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This was a slogan that encouraged black pride and social/political leadership
Black power
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This was a militant black organization found in 1966 to fight police brutality in the ghetto
Black panthers
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How did MLK feel about black power?
He opposed it
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When was MLK assassinated and by who?
4/4/65, James earl ray
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How did Bobby Kennedy react to the MLK assassination?
He said not to react with violence, but 100 cities burned
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Why was bobby Kennedy assassinated?
His support for Israel
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This was the effort to study causes of urban violence because of white racism; it was ignored because of opposition
Kerner commission
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What did the civil rights movement effectively end?
De jure segregation
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This banned discrimination in the sale of housing
Civil rights act of 1968
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Why did the civil rights movement decline?
Riots and the black panthers
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This was created to ensure equal education and job opportunities, and it seeks to correct discrimination by favoring the previously discriminated
Affirmative action

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