Civil Rights Movement

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What was the civil rights movement?

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An 100yr struggle for freedom

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What we the three goals of the civil rights movements

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Freedom from discrimination
Equal opportunities in employment education and housing
The right to vote

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Dred Scott Supreme court decision

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No rights which a white man was bound to respect

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13th amendment

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Abolished slavery

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14th amendment

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Granted citizenship to blacks

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15 amendment

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Gave blacks the right to vote

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Reconstruction

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Whites took back control of the south, blacks relegated to 2nd class citizens

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How were blacks kept from voting?

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Through poll taxes, literacy tests, and intimidation by the KKK

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Jim Crow Laws

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Segregation laws

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Please vs Ferguson

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Supreme Court ruling why establish separate but equal and made segregation legal

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Book t Washington

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Believed in gradual equality for blacks through education. Found the Tuskegee Institute

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WEB Du Bois

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Demanded immediate equality helped establish the NAACP

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Marcus Garvey

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Back to Africa movement be proud of your race

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Harlem Renaissance

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New Negro movement that stressed art, poetry, theater, and music promoted black pride Harlem nyc

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After the War what did blacks demand?

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More rights and better pay

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Philip Randolph

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Started the National Negro Congress world toward civil rights legislation

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President Harry S Truman

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Integrated the military

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1950’s was known as

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A movement of young people

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Brown vs aboard of education

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Supreme Court ruling that challenged separate but equal and ended segregation in school int gyration became the law

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Thurgood Marshall

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Lawyer in the case and went to become the first African American Supreme Court justic

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Rosa parks

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Refused to sit in the back of the bus first challenge to Jim Crow laws

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Little Rock 9

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First 9 Black students to integrate into high school Protected by the 101 airborne

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Ruby Bridges

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1st Black student to be integrated into elementary school—New Orleans

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Martín Luther King Jr

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The main leader of the civil rights movement a nonviolent movement whose goal was to get civil rights for blacks

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What was MLK jr movement based,on

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Mohandas Gandhis in India

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sncc?

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Student nonviolent coordinating committee—students who staged protests in the form of sit ins, freedom rides, marches, etc

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Freedom riders

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Fought segregation on public transportation

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Marcho n Washington DC

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MLK I have a dram speech watershed event of the movements turning point

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What does peresident jfk do?

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He endorses a new civil rights legislation but is assassinated before it can pass

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President Lyndon B Johnson

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Gets the Civil rights act of 1964 passed which outlawed discrimination and segregation based on race

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Freedom summer

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Attempt to get African Americans to register to vote

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Bloody Sunday

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Peaceful march is attacked by police in Selma Alabama

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What was the result of Bloody Sunday?

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The voting Rights Act of 1956 which outlawed poll taxes and literacy tests

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Malcom X

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Malcom Little leader of Nation of Islam, was a critic of the nonviolent movement, preached that bloodshed revolution was necessary to gain equality Assassinated by the Nation of Islam

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Who was the leader of the Black Power Black Panther Movemeng

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Stocklehy Carmichael this was also violent

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Who assassinated MLKJR?

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James Earl Jones in Memphis Tennessee

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What was the result of MLKJR’s death , and Malcom X and Stockley Carmichael Philosophies?

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The us was rocked with the worst race riots in history

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Between 1966-70 what happened?

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70 cities burned (La, Detroit, NYC)

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Barack Obama?

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The first black president

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Why is the civil rights movement important?

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It established the idea that discrimination was unjust and would no longer be tolerated Finally brought us closer to the principles that our nation was founded on