Civil Rights Flashcards
Equality
The state or quality of being equal
Boycott
To refuse to have dealings with the person, organization, etc. or refuse to buy a product as a protest means of coercion
Interrogate
To combine educational faculties, classes, and like, previously segregated by race, into one unified system and disaggregat
Segregate
To require, often with force, the separation of, racial, religion, or other groups, from the body of society
Jim Crow laws
Any state of large discriminating against a black person
Minority
A group differing especially in race, religion, or the ethnic background, from the majority of the population
Majority
Most of the people out of a certain amount of people
Oppression
The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner
Prejudice
Unreasonable feelings, opinions, or aditudes, especially in a hostile nature, regarding our racial, religions, or national group
Racism
Hatred or intolerance of another race or other races
What was the problem with “separate but equal” faculties?
They said it was equal when it wasn’t. They were separate but not equal.
What court case upheld the separate but equal faculty
Plessy versus Ferguson
Who was Linda Brown and why was she made to go to a faraway school
She was a black student, blacks were not allowed to go to white schools because it was still segregated time
When was the brown versus Board of Education case decided by the Supreme Court
1954
Who was the Supreme Court Chief Justice at the time of the case
Earl Warren
