Civil Righta Movement Flashcards
(26 cards)
An attitude or opinion formed about a person, group, or race without taking time to judge fairly
Prejudice
Rights guaranteed to citizens by the constitution and laws of the nations
Civil rights
The idea that ones race determines his or hers character or ability, and that ones’s race is superior to others
Racism
To act on the basis of prejudice
Discrimination
A fixed set of beliefs about a person or group that may or may not be accurate
Stereotype
Refusing to obey laws you think are unjust; usually using some tactic of passive resistance
Civil disobedience
An organized refusal to buy or use a product, or to deal w/a company as form of protest
Boycott
Someone who is willing to make a great sacrifice for a cause they believe in
Martyr
Southern laws that forced the segregation of the races
Jim Crow laws
To execute someone illegally by hanging, burning, or other means
Lynch(Inge)
A test used to keep blacks from voting
Literacy tests
A tax that must be paid before one can vote; discourage southern blacks from voting, illegal today due to 24th amendment
Poll tax
Separating people accordingly to some standard; usually race
Segregation
The elimination of segregation
Desegregation
Racial separation NOT established by law
De facto segregation
Racial separation established by law
De jure segregation
Using non-violent protest to accomplish your goal
Passive resistance
Describes the southern response to federal laws calling for integration, esp. Public school integration
Massive resistance
Standard by which the U.S. Supreme Court measured and approved segregation facilities in the Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) case. The court over turned this in the 1954 case
Separate but equal
The idea that the powers of government are divided among levels, with the national having supremacy
Federalism
A form of protest in which the participants occupy a building or a site in the hope of forcing their opponents to give into their demands
Sit-ins
The idea that each state has the power to decide when an act of the federal government is unconstitutional
States rights
People of different races who rode buses throughout the south in 1961 and attempted to force the integration of segregated facilities in public bus stations
Freedom riders
Movement among some Blacks in the late 1960’s to achieve Social, political, and economic equality by rejecting integration and white assistance and attempting to unite all Blacks in pursuit of the effort
Black power
