Civil Rights Flashcards
Said “No such thing as separate but equal”.
John Marshall Harlan
News paper publisher who campaigned to make lynching a federal crime.
Ida Wells-Barnett
Believed the first thing is for black men to learn trade, get a good job, support their families, and then worry about civil rights.
Booker T. Washington
First black person to get an advanced degree from Harvard. Believed that civil rights should come first. Leader of NAACP
W.E.B. DuBois
States right candidate for president 1948.
Thomas E. Dewey
Republican running for president in 1948.
Strom Thurmond
First black Major League Baseball Player
Jackie Robinson
14 year old beaten and shot to death because he was accused of flirting with a white woman.
Emmett Till
Arrested for sitting in a white seat and refusing to move
Rosa Parks
Leader of the bus boycott
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Governor of Arkansas who apposed the integration of a HS and personally blocked the door.
Orval Faubus
Black student who was enrolled at the U of Mississippi; he finds the Governor of Mississippi is waiting for him at the registrar office to convince him to not enroll
James Meredith
Three young men murdered who attempted to help black men vote in the south
Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner
Alleged assassin of Martin Luther King,Jr.
James Earl Ray
Leader of the anti- stop ERA
Phyllis Schlafly
Separation of the races
Jim Crow*
Racially motivated murder
Lynching
The belief that black men needed to learn to trade, get a good job support your family and the civil rights will come later
Accommodationism
Neighbor to neighbor allience to not sell homes to minorities in certain towns.
Restrictive covenants
A large number of movement of white European Americans out of the cities into the suburbs to avoid black people
White flight
Parking yourself at a lunch counter hoping to be served, knowing that you wont be.
Sit-ins*
People who took interracial buses in south
Freedom Riders
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Freedom Summer
women must receive equal opportunities in high school and college extra scholastic sports
Title IX*
Improving educational employment opportunities for women and interracial without using quota
Affirmative action
Bus boycott took place in 1956
Montgomery
Where a large group of white people and attacked black people on the bus
Birmingham
In Alabama where a march for voting rights it held extreme bloody violence attacks occur during this time
Selma
Terrible riot that occurred in LA, California
Watts
National Organization for Women
stated goal: COMPLETE equality
American Indian Movement
A group of radical indian activist make a civil rights group often violent to authority
Plessy v Ferguson
Case goes to Supreme court and it rules that separate facilities for white and black are constitutional as long as they are of equal quality “Separate but equal”
Brown v Board of Education
filed a lawsuit against the school bc of race and the supreme court overturned plessy and public schools must be desegregated with deliberate speed.
Methods used by southern states to prevent their black citizens voting (3)
- Literacy tests
- Poll tax
- Grandfather clause
Method used to integrate the U.S. military
executive order
Provisions of Truman’s civil rights program (3)
- Make lynching a federal crime
- Civil rights devision justice department
- Anti- Discrimination Employment, Housing, Public Accommodations
Original purpose of public housing
Low cost housing for middle class families that were saving up for a home
Goals of the government’s “termination” policy (3)
- reservation will be abolished
- liquidate tribal assets
- eliminate all gov programs /benefits administered by BIA (bureau of indian affairs)
Provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 (3)
- Becomes a federal crime to prevent qualified persons from voting
2.
Provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (3)
- Prohibits job discrimination
- prohibits racial discrimination
3.
Function of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
To provide for federal oversight of elections in the south and certain areas of the North
