Civil Rights
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Sunderlandm12 on March 1, 2011
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People,vocabulary, and events of the Civil Rights movement.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 I Have a Dream Speach | Uses metaphores and facts to motivate civil rights protestors. |
| 3 events that caused congress to act | 1) March on washington 2) Events in Birmingham 3) Assassination of JFK |
| Voter Registration Act of 1965 | All citizens can vote and the government will protect you. |
| Malcolm X | Black Muslim who argued for separation. He believed you should be non-violent with non-violent people and violent with violent people. He was assassinated in 1965. |
| Riots | Public disorder or violence. |
| Emmett Till | Was beaten to death by 2 white men because he said something to a white woman. At his funeral they left the coffin open and everybody so his face and it got peoples attention. |
| A. Philip Randolph | Organized a union, |
| Union | Group of workers in a company who work together to get what they want or they will go on strike or protest. |
| Thurgood Marshall | A lawyer in charge of the case Brown V.S. the board of ed. |
| Rosa Parks | Member of the NAACP is arrested for refusing to move to a seperate section of the bus. |
| Martin Luther King (MLK) | Lead the bus boycott, GREAT PUBLIC SPEAKER!!, and gets people to believe in change. |
| Mohandas Gandhi | Indian leader who believed in NON-VIOLENCE!! |
| Lunch Counters | Where black people sit in the white only lunch counter. This is a good way of using non-violence but still getting the point across. |
| March on Washington | 300,000 people join to protest jobs and freedom. |
| Phalanx | Group of soldiers. |
| 13th Amendment | Slavery is illegal. |
| 14th Amendment | Every person born in the U.S. is automatically a citizen. |
| 15th Amendment | All citizens can vote no matter what color skin they have. not women. |
| Jim Crowe Laws | Black and whites seperate but equal. |
| Lynching | When a group of white people murder a black person. |
| Plessy V.S. Ferguson | Seperate but equal in trains was OK! |
| Booker T. Washington | Believes people should do it themselves and not rely on the government. |
| W.E.B. Dubois | Believes people should support equal rights and government. |
| The Turning Point | World War I: 370,000 black soldiers faught for the U.S. in Europe. They wont take being treated anything less than equal now! |
| Marcus Garvey | Thinks you should be proud to be black. Leave the U.S. and return to Africa and build new nation--Zionism. |
| World War II | 1 Million black soldiers fight even thought they faced discrimination. |
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