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Chapter 28: Civil Rights Movement Flashcards

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Booker T Washington

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put up with segregation for the time being; good citizen

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WEB DeBois

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wanted equality now

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Little Rock crisis

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governor called in national guard on 9 black students from entering the school; couldn’t get in for 3 weeks; Eisenhower sent US troops to protect students in Central High School in Arkansas; 1957

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Plessy v Ferguson

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supreme court ruled “separate but equal”

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Montgomery, Alabama

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Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white man and arrested; NAACP member; Montgomery Bus Boycott led to Supreme Court ruling of segregation busses illegal; creation of SCLC

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SCLC

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southern Christian leadership conference; MLK selected to be group leader; protest activities across the south with nonviolence

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Ghandi

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spiritual leader in India who inspired MLK to be nonviolent

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Sit-In Movement

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Greensboro, North Carolina; Woolworth’s at segregated lunch counter; 4 back college students refused service; protesters joined in with nonviolence and no disprution

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Freedom Riders

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1960; Supreme Court ruled bus station facilities for interstate travelers must be open to all passengers; CORE sent group on bus through the Deep South

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Robert Kennedy sent

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federal marshalls to Montgomery to protect riders

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interstate commerce commission

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forced integration of bus and train stations

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James Meredith

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enrolled at University of Mississippi; 50 federal marshals met with 2,500 violent protesters; Kennedy sent troops; hundreds injured and 2 killed

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George Wallace

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governor of Alabama; blocked Vivian Malone and James Hood from enrolling in the University of Alabama

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Albany movement

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sit in; Albany bus station; MLK lead demonstrations and got arrested; 9 month movement; failed

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the campaign

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MLK hoped to motivate more people; white clergy attacked MLK in newspaper add; “letter from Birmingham jail” speech from MLK

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Eugene Connor

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police chief; “bull”; used firefighters to break up 2,500 student protesters

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Medgar Evers

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head of NAACP in Mississippi and assassinated

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Byron De La Bechwith

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KKK member; tried for the crime but failed to convict all-white jury; tried the 3rd time

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march on Washington

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Aug 28, 1963; 200,000 people marched and protested; “I have a dream” MLK speech

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Johnson signed

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the civil rights act of 1964 banning discrimination in public accommodations

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voter education project

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registered African Americans to vote; registered more than half a million

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24th amendment

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banned poll tax

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freedom summer

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college students volunteered to spend the summer registering African Americans to vote; volunteers registered and taught schools

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Andrew Goodman

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freedom summer volunteer; went missing on June 21, 1964; 2 CORE workers and himself went to a church bombing; Johnson ordered massive hunt on 3; bodies discovered in Mississippi; 21 suspects tried for violating civil rights laws

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17,000 African Americans

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signed up to vote in Mississippi but they only took 1,600

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SNCC

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student nonviolent coordination committee

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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

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SNCC helped form; elected 68 delegates to the Democratic National Convention so it wasn’t white-only

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Selma, Alabama

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MLK organized a march for voting rights and arrested; 4 day march from Selma to Montgomery; 600 African Americans on 54 mile march; police set blockade and were broadcast on TV

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voting rights act

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Johnson passed; one of the most important pieces of the civil rights legislation

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de jure segregation

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segregation by law

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de facto segregation

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segregation that exists through custom and practice

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Watts and Detroit

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there were major riots

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Kerner Commission

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study cause of urban rioting; poverty and discrimination

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Stokely Carmiechel

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leader of SNCC; abandoned philosophy of nonviolence; black power; wanted African Americans to depend on themselves to solve problems

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black panthers

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Oakland, California; violent revolution; members carried guns

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black muslims

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Nation of Islam; believed in black power; black nationalism, self reliance, and discipline

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Malcom X

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offered message of hope, defiance, and black pride; went to Mecca for spiritual trip and decided not to be violent; assassinated

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death of MLK

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April 4,1968; James Earl Ray; shot on hotel balcony in Memphis; riots erupted

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Ralph Abernathy

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new leader of SCLC; poor people’s campaign (lead people to capital to ask for help); terrible media; disaster; failed to clearly express the protesters needs and demands; bad weather

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black power movement

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J Edgar Hoover (FBI director) had spies on groups of the movement; considered MLK and black power movement threat to society

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civil rights act of 1968

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banned discrimination of the sale of rental housing (also fair housing act)

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affirmative location

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program that gave reference to minorities and women in hiring and admissions to make up for past discrimination

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Thurgood Marshall

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Supreme Court 1st African American justice

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John Lewis

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represented people of Alabama for Congress

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Andrew Young

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Georgias first African American member of congress

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Jesse Jackson

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operation PUSH and campaigned for Democratic presidential nomination in the 1980’s

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