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IB History #3 Flashcards

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Double V Campaign

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Black-Americans’ World War II-era
- civil rights campaign
- earn victory in the home front and victory overseas.

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Isaac Woodard

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African-American World War II veteran
- brutally beaten by police in South Carolina
- after being discharged from the military.
- Was blinded
- Brought national attention to Jim Crow
- Motivated Harry Truman to move forward with the desegregation of the armed forces.

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Executive Order 9981

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-Executive order
-President Truman in 1948
- abolished discrimination “on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin”
- in the armed forces/military

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States Rights Democratic Party (Dixiecrats)

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  • To stop the re-nomination of Harry Truman as the Democratic candidate in the 1948 election.
  • Ran as a third party in the 1948 general election.
  • Exposed the divisions in the party between the Southern/rural conservative segregationist wing and the Northern/urban liberal wing.
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1948 Election

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  • Truman wins surprise re-election after challenge from within his own party
  • federal intervention in civil rights and Cold War policies.
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Emmett Till

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14 year old Chicago boy who was murdered in Mississippi after allegedly whistling at a white woman.
Later sold their story of the murder to a magazine. Nation attention: Till’s disfigured body was shown at an open casket funeral and photos were published in magazines. The case helped jumpstart the Civil Rights Movement.

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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)

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Supreme Court ruling that overturned the “separate but equal”

Said (declared): separate educational facilities = unequal + violated the 14th ammendment.

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Thurgood Marshall

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  • NAACP legal counsel
  • argued against Brown v. Board of Education case in front of the Supreme Court.
  • First African-American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 1967.
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Massive Resistance
(Policy)

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  • A policy
  • U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd
  • unite white politicians and leaders in Virginia
  • prevent public school desegregation (1956)
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White Citizens Council

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  • a group formed in the aftermath of Brown v. Board.
  • They Organized meetings, distributed materials, and attempted apply political pressure to stop desegregation in schools.
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George C. Wallace

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Southern populist and segregationist Governor of Alabama
- defended racial segregation (in his state)
- Ran for president several times as a Democrat
- Third-party candidate in 1968 winning five states.

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Civil Rights Act of 1957

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  • First civil rights legislation by Congress since Reconstruction.
  • Designed to provide federal protection for African-American voting rights
  • Mamy provisions were removed by segregationist Senators.
  • Civil rights legislation passed in the 1960s.
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Little Rock Crisis (1957)

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  • Showdown between state and federal government.
  • Governor Faubus sent Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine Black students from entering Little Rock Central High School.
  • Eisenhower deploys federal troops to enforce the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board.
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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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  • Yearlong boycott
  • Montgomery’s segregated bus system in 1955-1956
  • African American population.
  • Boycott brought Martin Luther King national prominence
  • Victory= Supreme Court abolished segregated seating on public transportation unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks

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  • African-American woman
  • arrested for refusing to give up her seat
  • Montgomery bus
  • Attended a non-violent action training @ Highlander Folk School
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Martin Luther King Jr.

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  • U.S. Baptist minister
  • civil rights leader.
  • A noted orator
  • Opposed discrimination against African-Americans
  • organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations.
  • Assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968.
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Election of 1960

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  • Democrat John F Kennedy defeats Republican Richard Nixon.
  • Prominent issue was the Cold War
  • Civil Rights were on the backburner.
  • Kennedy was the first presidential candidate to effectively use the television for campaigning purposes.
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John F Kennedy

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  • 35th US President.
  • At first, reluctant supporter of Civil Rights.
  • Soon he came around to support more federal action.
  • Assassinated in Dallas in November 1963.
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Civil Rights Act of 1960

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  • To make the Civil Rights Act of 1957 stronger.
  • Mainly dealt with voting rights
  • Federal Courts had power to register Black voters
  • Limit resistance to school desegratation = imposing criminal penalties.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

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  • After Montgomery Bus Boycott
  • Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders
  • 1957
  • coordinate civil rights activity in the South.

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