Semester 2 exam Flashcards
14th amendment
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KKK
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Plessy V Ferguson; justice Harlan
Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the “white” car of the East Louisiana Railroad. He could easily pass for white, but was considered black to Louisiana. Was required to sit in the “Colored” car. 1/8th black:
Justice harlan went against the majority opinion and said in was not constitutional.
Jim Crow; separate but equal; segregation
laws in the south that kept blacks segregated:The idea that the separation of black and white people was OK as long as they were learnign/doing the same thing
Brown vs Board of ed little rock nine
ruled segregation as unconstitutional: Governor of Arkansas would not led students attend a all white school.
MLK
Civil rights activist in the south who believed in peaceful protest and civil disobedience.
Malcolm X
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Gerry Mandering
voting district boundaries are changed by white politicians to keep blacks from having a voting majority.
John Howard griffin; black like me
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fragmented individualism
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Emmit Till
Young black boy who asked white store clerk out on a date. husband Roy, found out and got big Milam to scare him. The murderers were never found guilty of murder or kidnapping despite the evidence.
Child Labor
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Mother Jones
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Fair labor standards act
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19th amendment, suffrage
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Alice paul
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