Unit 6 Day 2: Civil Rights Flashcards
what is rights liberalism?
the idea that individuals are entitled to state protections from discrimination
What were ghettos?
all-black districts characterized by low wages, inadequate city services, and perversely high rents
What organization denied African Americans the easy credit that was funding the growth of suburbs
Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
What organization begun challenging racial segregation in a series of court cases in the 1930s
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
What 2 things led to more momentum for the push for equality?
World War II, emergence of black middle-class
What allowed many Americans to witness violence of white supremacy for the first time
Television
Who led one of the first bus boycotts?
Harlem minister Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
What 2 groups embraced the philosophy of nonviolent direct action espoused by Mahatma Gandhi of India?
Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
What report called for robust federal action to ensure black equality?
To Secure These Rights
Who wrote “To Secure These Rights”
Presidential Committee on Civil Rights
What new party saw rise in the 1948 election
States’ Rights Democratic Party or Dixiecrats
Who leaded the Dixiecrats?
Governor Strom Thurmond
Did the Cold War work for or against civil rights?
against
What system, similar to a Jim Crow South, repressed Mexican Americans
“castle”
What were the segregated Mexican American communities called?
colonias
