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Brown v Board

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Linda Brown from Kansas, attorney is Thurgood Marshall. Ended segregation in public schools, overturned Plessy case

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Segregation

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Separating people by their race

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SCLC

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Southern Christian leadership conference. Taught AA nonviolent methods for pursuing equal rights

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Plessy vs Ferguson

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Upheld the constitutionality of segregating public facilities under the doctrine of separate but equal (1896)

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Rosa Parks

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Refused to give up seat in section of the bus reserved for whites. Arrested and fined $10

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James Meredith

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First AA to integrate Ole Miss 1962

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March on Washington

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August 1963 200,000 people “marched” to capital to rally support for Civil Rights Bill

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Freedom Summer

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1964, help AA register to vote

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Sit ins

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Huey Newton

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Nation of Islam

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Discrimination

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Treating people differently based on race or other characteristics

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Bias

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Favoring

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Black Panther Party

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Jimmy Jackson

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James Earl Ray

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Thurgood Marshall

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Intergration

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SNCC

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Student nonviolent coordinating committee. Locally based, student run civil rights organization

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Little Rock Nine

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A. Philip Randolph

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Pressured FDR into banning discrimination in the military, pressured Truman into desegregating military

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Ross Barnett

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Jackie Robinson

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Freedom rides

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Activists who rode buses into the south to test the “de-segregation” of bus facilities. James Farmer

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Ella Baker
Founded SNCC
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Bobby Seale
1 leader of black panther party, and was in Afro American association
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Black Panthers
US AA militant group against urban police. Founded in 1966 in Oakland CA. Thought violent revolution was the only way to freedom
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Stereotype
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Prejudice
Irrational hatred of other groups
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MLK
Young baptist minister, protested for civil rights, first appearance speaking at bus boycott meeting
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A. Goodman
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Civil Rights
Protections/privileges given to citizens by law or intolerance
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Linda Brown
Topeka Kansas, Brown vs Board in Earl Warren court
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De jure
Segregation by law
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CORE
Congress of Racial equality. “Making equality a reality for all”
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Elizabeth Eckford
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Mahatma Gandhi
Employed nonviolent means to lead India into independence
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Medgar Evers
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Ruby Bridges
One of 6 chosen to integrate elementary schools, New Orleans 1960
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Stokely Carmichael
Coined the term “black power”
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Black Power
Racial pride, rejected by NAACP. Celebrated African Heritage
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Bobby Kennedy
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“Bull” Eugene Connor
Birmingham police chief, racist
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Civil rights act (1964)
Landmark legislation that banned discrimination based. On race color, gender, or national origin
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We shall overcome
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M. Schwerner
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J. Chaney
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NAACP
National association for the advancement of colored people. (1909 founded)
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De Facto
Segregation
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Orval Faubus
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
African Americans unite in their refusal to use the city’s buses
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Civil Disobedience
Nonviolent resistance to authority
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Emmett Till
Vacation with relatives, whistled at white woman, kidnapped, beat and shot by 2 white mean that weren’t charged
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Voting Rights Act
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Tommie Smith and John Carlos
Gave the Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics. They were suspended by the US team and banned from Olympic village.
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Malcom X
In prison at 20, leader in Nation of Islam,equality by any means necessary (violence) assassinated by rival group of black Muslims in 1965
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Selma
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John Lewis
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Racism
An attitude of superiority toward a person of a different race, and most often color
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James Farmer
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Bombing 16th street church
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Elijah Muhammad
“Blacks were they first people to rule the world and whites tricked them out of power” leader of religious/political group, Nation of Islam. Convert to Islam to protect heritage
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George Wallace
Jan 1963 Governor of Alabama “Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!

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