Civil Rights

Question 1

Cesar Chavez

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Organized and fought for migrant farm worker’s rights, many of whom were Mexican American

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SLLC

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Southern Christian leadership conference, founded in 1957 by Southern ministers fighting for equal rights led by Martin Luther King

Question 3

Orval Faubus

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Governor of Arkansas that ordered national guard soldiers to block entrance of nine black students to Central high school later overruled by President Eisenhower

Question 4

Montgomery bus boycott

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Led to the federal court ruling that segregation on city buses violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment

Question 5

Plessy v Ferguson

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The court ruling that ‘‘separate but equal’’ was constitutional

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Rosa parks

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Refused to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery, local leaders organized a boycott in protest

Question 7

Letter from Birmingham Jail

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King explained why African American could no longer wait for equality

Question 8

March on Washington

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Organize 1963 to convince Congress to pass civil rights legislation highlighted by famous ‘‘I have a dream speech’’ by Martin Luther King Junior

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George Wallace

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Alabama governor that blocked to African-American students from attending the University of Alabama

Question 10

Jackie Robinson

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Broke the color barrier in major-league you baseball playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers

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Civil right act of 1964

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Prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, or ethnic origin in public places and in employment

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Thurgood Marshall

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Attorney for NAACP Successfully argued the brown v. Board of Ed case and would later become the first African-American supreme court justice.

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Freedom writers

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Activists used busses to protest Segregation in interstate terminals

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Malcolm X

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Was leading black Muslim who believed that equality near require the use of violence to be achieved

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Brown V. Board of education

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Landmark court case ruled that segregated schools were ‘‘inherently unequal’’ Ordered their integration ‘‘With all deliberate speed’’

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Sit in movement

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Begin in Greensboro, North Carolina when 4 students sat at a “whites only’’ Lunch counter

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24th amendment

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Forbid states from imposing a poll tax in order to vote in federal elections

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Affirmative action

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Federal program designed to actively recruit minorities for employment

Question 19

SNCC

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Gave young African Americans a greater voice in the civil rights movement organize sit in the demonstrations in the south

Question 20

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Led the 13 month long boycott of public buses, successfully ending the city’s segregated bus system

Question 21

Billy Graham

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Was a white Christian preacher and outspoken opponent of segregation once paid to bail out Martin Luther King, Junior out of jail

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Black power movement

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Group that believed that African-Americans should rely more on themselves a controlling their own communities and businesses

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16th Street Baptist Church

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Site of bombing which killed for young African-American children and injured many more

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Little rock nine

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Name given to the nine black students that attempted to enroll in ‘‘all white’’ Central high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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CORE

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Congress of racial equality, used peaceful confrontation to affect social change

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Civil disobedience

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Belief that if government passed unjust laws people should oppose it with protest, boycotts and other non-violent tactics

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Sweatt v. Painter

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Court case involving an African-American student entering the university of Texas school of law, court ruled that he should allowed to attend White law students

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Jim Crow laws

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Southern laws that prevented blacks from sharing public facilities including theaters, beaches , restaurants, water fountains or buses with whites

Question 29

Lester Maddox

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Governor of Georgia from 1967 to 1975, came to prominence as a staunch segregationist, when he refused to serve black customers in his Atlanta restaurant despite the civil rights act of 1964

Question 30

Civil rights movement

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Period of the 1950s-1960s that addressed the unequal treatment of African-Americans and other minority groups

Question 31

Voting rights of 1965

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Federal law suspended literacy test where they were used to prevent African-Americans from voting