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Civil Rights - Chapter 29 Flashcards

To understand the African-American struggle for civil rights during the 1950s and 1960s.

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African-American lawyer who led the legal challenge against segregation

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Thurgood Marshall

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Supreme Court case in which segregated schools were ruled unconstitutional

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Brown v. Board of Education

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Woman who helped start Montgomery bus boycott

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Rosa Parks

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Leader of the civil rights movement

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Civil rights organization

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

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Civil rights organization formed by students

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

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Protest tactic in which blacks occupied whites-only seats at lunch counters

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Sit-in

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Civil rights activists who tried to end segregation on national buses

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Freedom riders

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African American who won enrollment to the all-white University of Mississippi

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James Meredith

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Law that outlawed racial discrimination

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Name of project to win voting rights for Southern blacks

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Freedom Summer

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Prominent voting rights activist

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Fannie Lou Hamer

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Act that struck down state laws intended keep blacks from voting

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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Segregation by custom or practice

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De facto segregation

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Segregation by law

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De jure segregation

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African-American civil rights leader

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Malcolm X

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Group headed by Elijah Muhammad

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Nation of Islam

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Leader of Black Power movement

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Stokely Carmichael

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Movement that stressed black pride

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Black Power

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African-American group founded to combat police brutality

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Black Panthers

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Commission that reported on race relations in America

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Kerner Commission

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Act that banned discrimination in housing

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Civil Rights Act of 1968

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Program aimed at hiring or including minorities

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Affirmative action

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