Civil Righta Movement

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An attitude or opinion formed about a person, group, or race without taking time to judge fairly

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Prejudice

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Rights guaranteed to citizens by the constitution and laws of the nations

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Civil rights

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The idea that ones race determines his or hers character or ability, and that ones’s race is superior to others

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Racism

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To act on the basis of prejudice

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Discrimination

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A fixed set of beliefs about a person or group that may or may not be accurate

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Stereotype

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Refusing to obey laws you think are unjust; usually using some tactic of passive resistance

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Civil disobedience

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An organized refusal to buy or use a product, or to deal w/a company as form of protest

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Boycott

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Someone who is willing to make a great sacrifice for a cause they believe in

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Martyr

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Southern laws that forced the segregation of the races

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Jim Crow laws

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To execute someone illegally by hanging, burning, or other means

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Lynch(Inge)

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A test used to keep blacks from voting

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Literacy tests

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A tax that must be paid before one can vote; discourage southern blacks from voting, illegal today due to 24th amendment

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Poll tax

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Separating people accordingly to some standard; usually race

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Segregation

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The elimination of segregation

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Desegregation

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Racial separation NOT established by law

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De facto segregation

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Racial separation established by law

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De jure segregation

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Using non-violent protest to accomplish your goal

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Passive resistance

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Describes the southern response to federal laws calling for integration, esp. Public school integration

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Massive resistance

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Standard by which the U.S. Supreme Court measured and approved segregation facilities in the Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) case. The court over turned this in the 1954 case

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Separate but equal

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The idea that the powers of government are divided among levels, with the national having supremacy

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Federalism

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A form of protest in which the participants occupy a building or a site in the hope of forcing their opponents to give into their demands

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Sit-ins

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The idea that each state has the power to decide when an act of the federal government is unconstitutional

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States rights

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People of different races who rode buses throughout the south in 1961 and attempted to force the integration of segregated facilities in public bus stations

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Freedom riders

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Movement among some Blacks in the late 1960’s to achieve Social, political, and economic equality by rejecting integration and white assistance and attempting to unite all Blacks in pursuit of the effort

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Black power

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A policy that seeks to correct the effects of past discrimination by favoring the groups who were previously disadvantaged

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Affirmative action

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An unfair treatment of members of a majority group

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Reverse discrimination