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Civil Rights Flashcards

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Brown .VS. Board 1954

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Overturned Plessy V Ferguson
- said it was unconstitutional to separate school children by face

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SCLC

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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SNCC

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Student non-violence coordinating comitte
-freedom summer

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CORE

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Congress of racial equality
-sit ins
-Freedom rides

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NAACP

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National association of the advancement of colored peopled

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Civil rights

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Protecting/previleges given to citizens by law

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Prejudice

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Irrational hatred of other groups

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Racism

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An attitude of superiority toward a person of a different race,most often person of color

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Bias

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Favoring

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Discrimination

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Treating people differently based on race or other characteristics

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Rosa park

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-seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a bus and was arrested and fined $10-14
-started Montgomery bus boycott

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Montgomery bus boycott

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  • 17,000 AA refused to use city busses (city lost money)
  • ended segregation on busses in 1956
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De jure

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Segregation by law

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De facto

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Segregation

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Emmett till

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-14 year old boy from Chicago
- “ Whistled” as a white lady
-brutally murder in Mississippi
-basically stared CR movements (people saw how unfair AA were treated

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Orval Faubus

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Federal/Governor of Arkansas

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Ruby Ridges

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One of 6 AA to go to a white school to stop segregation
-got spit on

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James Meredith

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First AA to integrate Ole Miss 1962

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Thurgood Marshall

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Lawyer for NAACP
-also 1st AA Supreme Court justice (happens later in history)

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Civil rights act 1964

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  • LBJ prohibited discrimination of AA in employment, voting, & public accommodations
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Civil disobedience

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Refusal to obey laws that are considered unjust

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George Wallace

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45th Gov of Alabama

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Elizabeth eckford

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  • Little Rock nine
  • was supposed to go to white HS but the guards did not let her pass
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Medgar Evers

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-American civil rights activist & NAACP’s first field secretary in Mississippi
-Shot by Byron De La Beckwith (white assassin)

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We shall overcome

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was the national anthem for the NAACP

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John Lewis

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one of the principal organizers of the March on Washington in 1963

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Linda brown

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subject of the lawsuit that led to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision

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Bobby Seal and Huey Newton

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Founders of Black Panthers Party

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Black Panther Party

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(1966-1970)
-organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality
-violence
-(patrol Black neighborhoods to protect residents from police brutality)

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24th amendment

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Made it illegal to make AA pay or take a test to vote

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Sit ins

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-peaceful sit in protest
-(4 kids who sat in a restaurant and waited till they finally got served) got arrested instead

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Which president made MLK day a holiday

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Ronald Reagon

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James Earl Ray

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  • American fugitive
  • who was convicted of assassinating MLK
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integration

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-opposite of segregation

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A. Phillip Randolph

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-black
-pressured FDR into banning discrimination in military
- and pressured JFK into stoping segregation in military
-organized first AA labor union

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Jackie Robinson

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-baseball player

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Plessy .vs. Ferguson

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-Supreme Court justice decision that ruled racial segregation laws did not violate US constitution as long as they were “separate but equal”
- man was 1/8 AA and tried to ride the white bus but turned into whole civil case
- (Said it was fine to segregate as long as it was “separate but equal”)

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Ross Barnett

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  • 53rd Gov of Mississippi
    -southern democrat who supported racial segregation
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Phillip Randolp

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  • American civil rights activist
    -1st successful AA led labor union
    -pressured FDR into banning discrimination in the military
  • pressured Truman into desegregating the military
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Stokely Carmichael

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  • coined the phrase “black power”
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Freedom summer

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