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Civil Rights Movement Flashcards

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Who is Jackie Robinson?

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First African-American baseball player

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What is Truman’s executive order?

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Desegregation Armed Forces and in discriminatory hiring practices in the federal government

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What is litigation?

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Resolving disputes in court

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What did the court rule in Plessy versus Ferguson

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Do US Supreme Court ruled that segregation is OK as long as it separate but equal

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What did the NAACP argue?

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That separate was not equal

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What are Jim Crow laws?

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A way to legally separate people

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What is the Montgomery bus boycott?

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African-Americans protesting segregated buses by not riding the bus for about a year

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What are the civil rights act of 1957 do?

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Created the civil rights commission to register African-Americans to vote

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What did George Wallace do?

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Stood in the doorway of university of Alabama to prevent blacks from enrolling

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Want to Lester Maddox do?

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Refuse to allow African-Americans in his restaurant. He wanted to maintain status quo.

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What is Greensboro four?

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Sittin at whites only lunch counter

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What are the freedom riders?

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Road interstate buses into the south

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Who wrote the letter from Birmingham Jail urging nonviolent civil disobedience?

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Martin Luther King Junior

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What was the march on Washington?

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Led by Martin Luther King Junior where he gave his I have a dream speech

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What civil rights act of 1964 do?

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Prohibited discrimination in federal employment

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What is the new frontier?

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Name given to JFK’s domestic policies

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What is the Peace Corps

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Send American volunteers to developing countries

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What is JFK’s idea on the space race

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He believes that the US should be the first nation to put a man on the moon

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Who was Fidel Castro?

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He overthrew he was dictator and turn the country communist

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What is the Bay of Pigs?

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I failed US mission to overthrow Castro

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What was the Cuban missile crisis?

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Soviet union was shipping nuclear weapons to Cuba. JFK ordered a naval blockade around Cuba. The US agreed to pull weapons from Turkey and the Soviet Union agreed to for weapons from Cuba. The hotline is set up to increase communications between countries.

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What is the great society?

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Johnson’s program to improve quality of life for all Americans

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What did the Medicare act of 1965 do?

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Gave medical care to people over the age of 65

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What is urban renewal?

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Aided cities to rebuild slums

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What did the immigration act of 1965 do?

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Law restricts immigrants from Latin America for the first time.

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What is the sexual revolution?

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Better sex education and the pill

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What did Roe v. Wade do?

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The right for an abortion

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What did title IX to do?

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Banned sex discrimination in education

29
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Who are key nonviolent black power figures?

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Martin Luther King Jr.
NAACP
SNCC

30
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Who were violent black power leaders?

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Malcolm X
Black Muslims
Black panthers

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Who are key figures in the Chicano movement?

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Hector P Garcia
Cesar Chavez
Delores Huerta

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What did Mendez the West Minister decide?

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Desegregation of Mexican American children in

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What did Delgado V Bastrop decide?

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Desegregation of Mexican American children in Texas

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What did Hernandez V Texas decide?

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The right to a jury trial with Mexican jurors

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What did white V register decide?

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Minorities represented in voting district

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What did Edgewood ISD V Kirby decide?

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School funding

37
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What did Youth culture like?

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Opposed materialism of modern society
The Beatles new fashion and long hair
Hippies

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