chapter 21 Flashcards

(32 cards)

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Plessy v Ferguson

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signs like “colored water” and “Whites Only” were the norm for more than 55 years

mixed

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NAACP

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(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
WEB Dubois
focused on inequalities of segregated public education

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Brown v Board of Education

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girl denied admission to all white school

overturned plessy v ferguson

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Little rock 9

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group of students in arkansas that went to school for the first time with whites
eisenhower sent 101st airborne

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Orval Faubus

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tried to turn away the little rock 9

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four people that influenced MLK’s brand of non violent resistance called soul force

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Jesus
Randolph
Gandhi
Thoreau

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freedom riders

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hoped to integrate buses and bus terminals

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letter from a birmingham jail

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MLK
protesting segregation in south
views on civil rights movement

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civil rights act of 1964

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banned discrimination in public accommodations and employment
established equal employment opportunity commission

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freedom summer

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campaign focused in Mississippi
began to register blacks to vote
3 civil rights workers killed

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voting rights act of 1965

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eliminated literacy tests

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de facto segregation

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based on practice and custom

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13
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Watts neighborhood

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LA
worst race riots in history
34 killed
hundreds of millions in damage

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Malcolm X

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follower of nation of islam
philosophy of black superiority
radical (militant approach)

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Stokely Carmichael

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called for black people to define their own goals
black power
changed from SNCC to black panthers

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16
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James Earl Ray

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MLK ended his march on a balcony in Memphis as a result of him

17
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Thurgood Marshall

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NAACP lawyer
lead attorney of Brown v Board of education
first black american supreme court justice

18
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MLK

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pastor until montgomery boycott

known for soul force

19
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Joe Jackson

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civil rights leader
wanted direct action in positive form
build black community
voting was key

20
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Emmitt Till

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case showed blacks weren’t treated fair in courts

murdered for whistling

21
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affirmative action

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seeks to correct past discrimination
favored previously disadvantaged
first used for education and job opportunities

22
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Jim Crow Laws

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wanted blacks separate

voting
sitting on juries
appearing in public with whites

23
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three ways blacks were kept from voting

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literact test
poll tax
grandfather clause

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nation of islam

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based off teachings of Elijah Muhammed
preached that whites were cause of black condition
blacks should separate from white society
defend themselves

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sncc
student nonviolent coordinating committee confrontational students
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sclc
southern Christian leadership conference marches and protests older and church leaders
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how did Kennedy help the freedom riders
sent 400 us marshals to protect riders
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March on Washington
demand congress to pass civil rights bill A Phillip Randolph I have a dream speech
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March from Selma to Montgomery
violent | wanted to have a new voting rights act to register black voter
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de jure segregation
segregation by law
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Malcolm x after Mecca
equality | integrate
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black panthers
political party to fight police brutality