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Race Flashcards

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When was slavery abolished

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1865

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Plessy v Ferguson (1896)

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Upheld racial segregation laws as long as facilities were ‘separate but equal’

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What are Jim Crow laws

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Laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States

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What were freedom riders

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Activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States

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Civil Rights Act 1964

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  • Act prohibited discrimination of all kinds

- Also gave the federal govt. the power to enforce desegregation

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