Civil Rights Flashcards
13 amendment
1864 abolished slavery as a legal institution
14 amendment
Was designed to grant citizenship and protect civil liberties of recently freed slaves
15 amendment
1870 protects Rights of citizens to vote regardless of race color or previous condition of slavery
Racism
Deeply rooted prejudice which may be expressed in the idea that one race is superior to another
Jim Crow
Stereotypes African Americans Jim Crow came to personify the system of government sanctioned racial oppression and segregation in the United States
Two examples of Jim Crow laws
Literacy tests
Grandfather clause
Segregation
The separation of races by law in all aspects of society, schools housing restaurants club buses and trains and theaters
De facto segregation
Segregation that exits by practice and custom
De jure segregation
Segregation by law
Plessy v ferguson
Separate but equal facilities and accommodations for black people were constitutional so long as these resources were equal in quality to those provided for the white community
Prejudice
A negative attitude or opinion about a person or group that is based upon gender race color religion etc
Ku klux klan
Originally formed to terrorize and scare blacks
Ingrained in society and government
Lynching
Murder mob violence without due process of the law
Who worked with NAACP
Thur good Marshall, worked to overturn older court rulings on segregation like brown v board
NAACP
National association for the advancement of colored people
Civil rights organization
Worked to end discrimination against blacks and other minority groups
Brown v board
Denied legal basis for segregation in schools but with all deliberate speed
Integration
Removing all barriers and placing all groups of people together
Executive order
Rule or order issued by an executive branch of gov and carrying the force of law (president)
Little Rock nine
Nine black children supposed to be allowed to attend all white school
Faced huge racism and had to be escorted by national guard
Martin Luther king achievements
Montgomery bus boycott
Nobel peace prize
March on Washington
Civil disobedience
A refusal to deal with an individual organization or business
Sit ins
An act of occupying seats in a racially segregated establishment in organized protest against discrimination
SCLC
Southern Christian leadership council
Nonviolent crusades
Martin Luther king
SNCC
Student nonviolent coordinating committee
Boycotts and sit ins