Period 8 Vocab Flashcards

1
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Effort by Civil Rights groups in Mississippi to register black voters in the summer of 1964

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Freedom Summer

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Organization formed to give young blacks a great voice in the civil rights movement. Organized black voter drives, sit ins, and freedom rides

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commitee (SNCC) 1960

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Movement that rejected the nonviolent and coalition building approach of tradition civil rights groups. Advocated for self determination of blacks (black control of black organizations)

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Black Power

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4
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AL govener who represented a “white blacklash”to the Civil Rights movement. He opposed racial desegregation and ran for presidnent in 1968 as an independent candidate

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George Wallace

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5
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Organization formed from Martin Luther King Jr and others after the Montgomery bus boycott. It became the backbone of the movement to achieve civil rights through nonviolence

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) 1957

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African American seamstriss who refused to give his seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery AL. Triggered a boycott of the bus system that sparked the Civil Rights Movement

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Rosa Parks

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Laws passed by many southern communities to stop civil rights protests by allowing the police to arrest anyone suspected of intending to disrupt public order

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public order laws

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8
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Babtist minister and civil rights leader who was committed to nonviolence. Beginning with the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, he led many significant protests in the late 1950s and 60s

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Martin Luther King Jr

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9
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Revolutionary organization founded in 1966 that endorsed violence as a means of social change

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Black Panthers

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10
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Effort to achieve integretion of bus terminals by riding integrated bus through the south

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freedom rides 1961

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Neighborhood in Los Angeles, CA where a race riot broke out resulting in millions of dollars in damage and the death of 28 blacks

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Watts 1965

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12
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Law that outlawed unjust restricitons on voting and authorized federal supervision of elections in areas where black voting has been restricted

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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13
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Through executive order 9981, President Truman ended racial descrimination and segregation in the US armed forces

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Desregation of the Armed Forces 1948

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Religious group founded by Elijah Muhammad which professed Islamic relgious beliefs and emphasized black separatism

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Nations of Islam (black Islam)

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15
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Member of the Nation of Islam and activist for black separatism. After leaving the Nations of Islam in 1964, he was assassinated in 1965

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Malcom X

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16
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Supreme Court case stating that seperate educational facilities for different races were inheredently unequal and therefore unconstitutional

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Brown v. Board of Education 1954

17
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Black student that went to the University of Mississippi under federal court order in 1962

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James Meredith

18
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First significant civil rights legislation since Reconstruction ended in 1877. Created the US Commission on Civil Rights and the Civil Rights Commission on the Justice Department

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Civil Rights Act 1957

19
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Nationwide reaction in more than 100 cities to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr

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race riots 1968

20
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Gathering of Civil Rights supporters in DC to pressure the US Congress to pass civil rights legislation. Martin Luther King Jr delivered his I Have a Dream speech at this march

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March on Washington 1963

21
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Statement issued by 100 southern congressmen, after the Brown v. Board of Education disicion, in which they pledged to oppose racial segregation

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Southern Manifesto 1954

22
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Law that barred segregation in public facilities forbade employers to discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, or national origin

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Civil Rights Act 1964

23
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The act of occupying the seats or an area of a segregated establishment to protest racial segregation. Popularized in Greensboro NC in 1960

A

sit ins

24
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Civil Rights march in AL to bring attension to the need for a voting rights act

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March from Selma to Montgomery 1965