9.7 Assessement Flashcards
What was the civil rights act 1875
Act that outlawed segregation in public facilities
What was Plessy versus Ferguson
Louisiana passed a law requiring railroads to provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and color races. This separate but equal law did not violate the 14th amendment which the Supreme Court decided guaranteed All-Americans equal treatment under the law
Jim Crow laws
Laws aimed at separating the races- forbid marriage between blacks and whites and established many other restrictions on social and religious contact between the races
Who was there a thurgood marshal
A team of lawyers was placed under him and over the next 23 years Marshall and NAACP lawyers would win 29 out of 32 cases argued before the Supreme Court including the Brown versus Board of Education.
What was brown versus Board of Education of topeka
In this case the father of Linda Brown had charge the Board of Education of Topeka Kansas with violating Linda’s rights by denying her admission to an all white elementary school for blocks from her house. The nearest all black elementary school was 21 blocks away
What was the civil rights act of 1957
First civil rights law since reconstruction. Shepherd by sender Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, the law gave the Attorney General greater power over school desegregation. It also gave the federal government jurisdiction or authority over violations of African-American voting rights
Southern Christian leadership conference
It’s purpose was to carry on nonviolent crusades against the evils of second classes in ships using African-American churches as a base the SCLC plan to staged protests and demonstrations throughout the south
Student nonviolent coordinating committee
National student protest group who risked losing college scholarships and being expelled from college or being physically harmed in order to protest what they believed in
Freedom riders
Hope to provoke a violent reaction that would convince the Kennedy administration 24th the law of desegregation on buses
Who was James Meredith
Air Force veteran who won a federal court case that allowed him to enroll in the all-white University of Mississippi nicknamed ole miss but when Meredith arrived on campus he faced governor Ross Barnett who refused to let him register as a student
Who was President Lyndon B. Johnson
After President John F. Kennedy was assassinated President Johnson plan to carry on candies work and signed the civil rights act of 1964
What was the civil rights act of 1964
That prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender. Gave all citizens the right to enter libraries parks washrooms restaurants theaters and other public accommodations
Who was Fannie Lou Hamer
The daughter of Mississippi sharecroppers would be the voice of the African Americans happy 1964 democratic national convention. In a televised speech that shocked the convention and viewers nationwide hammer describe how she jailed for registering to vote in 1962 and how police forest other prisoners to beat her
What was the voting rights act of 1965
You act eliminated the so-called literacy tests that have disqualified many voters. Also stated that federal examiners could involve voters who had been denied suffrage I local officials. In some of the proportion of African-Americans registered to vote rose from 10% in 1964 to 60% in 1968. Overall the percentage of registered African-American voters in the south tripled
What was the march on Washington
The civil rights Bill that President Kennedy sent to Congress guaranteed equal access to all public accommodations and gave the US Attorney General the power to file school desegregation suits. To persuade Congress to pass the bill to veterans organized labor leader a Philip Randolph and they are to Reston of the SCLC summoned Americans to a march on Washington DC
