Civil Rights
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12 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Huey Newton | Co founded Black Panthers and embraced separatism |
| Jim Crow | Nam of laws to promote segregation |
| Sit ins | Peaceful demonstrations that became a core tactic |
| Lyndon Johnson | Signed the Civil Rights bill of 1964 into law |
| Brown v. Board of Education | Case involving school segregation |
| Joseph McCarthy | Senator from Wisconsin responsible for Red Scare witch hunts |
| KKK | Group using terror to discriminate against blacks |
| Rosa Parks | Arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | Baptist preacher from Montgomery |
| Black Panthers | Group of poor, urban blacks who were willing to use violence |
| John F. Kennedy | Oversaw the Cuban Missile Crisis and the formation of the Peace Corps |
| Malcolm X | Father killed by two white men, served jail time, embraced separatism |
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