Flashcards: Civil Rights
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HistoryofCrawford on May 6, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
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 Sharecropping | System where landowners leased a few acres of land to farmworkers in return for a portion of their crops. Workers were very close to being slaves. |
| Grandfather Clause | A law that limited a person's ability to vote by asking whether their ancestors could vote. |
| Black Codes | Laws that attempted to retain some aspects of slavery in the post-Civil War South. |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws designed to enforce segregation. |
| segregation | When one group of people is kept separate from another because of their skin color. |
| Jazz | Musical form that developed in the United States blending African rhythms and European harmonies. |
| Brown vs. Board of Education | 1954 Supreme Court decision that overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson's "separate but equal" doctrine. |
| SNCC | Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee promoted and used non-violent means to protest racial discrimination; mostly through sit-ins. |
| Ole Miss | Nickname for the University of Mississippi, which had a riot following the admittance of James Meredith, an African-American. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Made segregation illegal in all public facilities, including hotels and restaurants, and gave the federal government additional powers to enforce civil rights. |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Law designed to expand African-American suffrage by making grandfather clauses and poll tests unlawful. |
| Black Panthers | Radical Black organization that promoted violence as a means to end segregation. |
| Affirmative Action | Programs intended to make up for past discrimination by helping minority groups and women gain access to jobs and opportunities. |
| Lynching | Hanging of a person by a mob without a lawful trial. |