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Chapter 28 Flashcards

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What is de facto?

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by custom

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What is de jure?

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by law

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Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?

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Thurgood Marshall

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What is CORE?

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Congress of Racial Equality- an organization that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement

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What did the Brown v. Board of Education decide?

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state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional

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What is the Southern Manifesto?

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a document written by the US congress in opposition to racial integration of public places.

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What did Mohandas Gandhi do?

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he led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world

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What is the name of SCLC?

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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What store did the Greensboro sit-ins occur in?

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Woolworth

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Who is Julian Bond?

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an American social activist and leader in the American civil rights movement, politician, professor, and writer.

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Who is Ella Baker?

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an African-American civil rights and human rights activist. She was a largely behind-the-scenes organizer whose career spanned over five decades.

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What is the SNCC?

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee which was a large organization with many supporters in the North who helped raise funds to support its civil rights work in the South

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Who was James Farmer?

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the initiator and organizer of the 1961 Freedom Ride, which eventually led to the desegregation of inter-state transportation in the United States.

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Who are the Freedom Riders?

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civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court

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What was the Albany movement?

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a desegregation coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, on November 17, 1961 by local activists, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

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Who was James Meredith?

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an American civil rights movement figure, a writer, and a political adviser.

17
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Who is “Bull” Conner?

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the Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, during the American Civil Rights Movement.

18
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Who is Medgar Evers?

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an African-American civil rights activist from Mississippi involved in efforts to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi.

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What was considered the largest political rallies for human rights in United states history?

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March on Washington

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What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?

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outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin

21
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What was the Freedom Summer?

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a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi

22
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What was the MFDP?

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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party , an American political party created in the state of Mississippi in 1964, during the civil rights movement.

23
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Who was Malcolm X?

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an African-American Muslim minister and a human rights activist

24
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What was the Nation of Islam?

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an organization to improve the spiritual, mental, social, and economic condition of African Americans in the United States and all of humanity

25
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What was the Voting Rights Act of 1965

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a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits discrimination in voting

26
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What was the Mendez v. Westminster?

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a 1946 federal court case that challenged racial segregation in Orange County, California schools

27
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What is the INS?

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Immigration and Naturalization service

28
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What did the Immigration and Nationality Act?

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abolished the national origins quota system that was American immigration policy since the 1920s, replacing it with a preference system that focused on immigrants’ skills and family relationships with citizens or U.S. residents

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What is the NCAI?

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National Congress of American Indians

30
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Who attempted to stop African American students from attending the University of Alabama?

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Governor Wallace

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