Civil Rights
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tmorganator on May 19, 2011
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American History-Civil Rights unit
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Made poll tests equal (whites & blacks-same tests) |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Black preacher; fought for integration |
| Emmet Till | Lynched by white men for talking to white women |
| Mose Wright | Emmet Till's uncle; testified against two white men in court |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | Separate but equal; legalized segregation |
| De facto segregation | Societal segregation |
| De jure segregation | Legal segregation |
| Malcolm X | Made violent protests popular for blacks; highly religious (Nation of Islam) |
| Civil Rights Commission of 1960 | Commissioned by Eisenhower to research if blacks had a real problem with discrimination |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Outlawed discrimination in employment based on gender, race, or religion |
| Rosa Parks | Chosen by NAACP to challenge segregation on buses; arrested and started successful bus boycott |
| Doll test | B and W dolls shown to B and W children; W doll said to have positive attributes; B doll didn't |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws in many Southern states that segregated blacks from whites |
| Lynching | Brutal murder of blacks or their supporters by those who opposed them without support of the law |
| Jackie Robinson | First African American to play in Major League Baseball- broke 'color barrier' |
| March on Washington, D.C. | Rally in DC to support CRA 1964-MLK spoke, 250,000 people (blacks and whites) |
| Watts Riots | Watts, LA-6 days of August, 1965-blacks caused destruction in their own neighborhoods out of anger- sparked other violent protests |
| JFK | ... |
| Eisenhower | ... |
| Little Rock Nine | ... |
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