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JFK & Civil Rights Flashcards

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President Johnson

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Passed many pro civil rights acts in office

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Martin Luther king

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Leader of civil rights movement

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Rosa parks and boycotts

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Major turning point for civil rights, the start of the revolution

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CORE & sit ins

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Blacks and whites join together defending civil rights

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Bay of pigs

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US plan to overthrow Castro, violated agreement not to interfere with Western Hemisphere

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Cuban missile crisis

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S.U. and U.S. both had nuclear missiles pointed at each other

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Plessy vs Ferguson

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Desperation of white and black people was okay as long as they were equal

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March on Washington

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Civil rights activists march to DC to show support of JFKs civil rights act

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TV Debates

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The world was able to see everything happening

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Little Rock Arkansas

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States fought fed law of desegregation

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Freedom riders

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CORE volunteers fighting for civil rights by protesting

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Banned segregation in public places

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Warren commission

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Investigated the murder of JFK

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Berlin Wall

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Separates democracy govt and communist govt

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What was the connection between Ghandi and MLK?

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Non violent protest

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Space race

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US vs SU, US had first man on moon because of Pres Johnson

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Fidel Castro

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Overthrow Cuban govt

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James Meredith

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First black student at University of Mississippi

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Thurgood Marshall

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Hired by NAACP to fight in courts

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James Earl Ray

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Assassinated MLK

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Jack Ruby

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Killed Lee Harvey Oswald

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Medgar Evers

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Civil rights leader killed by KKK

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Lee Harvey Oswald

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Assassinated JFK

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KKK

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White supremacy

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Zapruder film

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Video footage of JFK assassination by Abraham Zapruder

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Robert Kennedy

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Attorney general while JFK was in office

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Jim Crow laws

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Segregation law

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Malcolm X

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Black Muslim

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NAACP

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WEB Dubois, fought for equality

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Montgomery bus boycott

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Rosa was arrested started boycott for a year

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Stokely Carmichael

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Civil rights leader of SNCC “black power”

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President Kennedy

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Civil rights supporter

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