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Chapter 21- Civil Rights

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Thurgood Marshall
First African American Supreme Court Justice
Brown v. Board of Education (Topeka)
Case where Supreme Court struck down segregated schooling
Rosa Parks
Secretary of NAACP, spurred the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King Jr
leader of the Civil rights movement who believed in civil disobedience
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
1957 group founded by Martin Luther King Jr. to fight against segregation using nonviolent means
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
students whose purpose was coordinate a nonviolent attack on segregation and other forms of racism
Sit-ins
to protest at lunch counters that served only whites, African Americans students began staging this
Freedom Riders
Activists from the North who road buses through the South to push for desegregation
James Meredith
The first African American student at the University of Mississippi.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender
Freedom Summer
A SNCC campaign to influence Congress to pass a voting rights act
Fannie Hamer
daughter of Mississippi sharecroppers who became the voice of the 1964 Democratic Convention
Voting Rights Act of 1965
a law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African-American suffrage
de facto segregation
Segregation existing by practice and custom
de jure segregation
segregation by law
Malcolm X
militant civil rights leader (1925-1965)
Nation of Islam
stated that whites were the cause of the black condition and that the races should separate (founded by the Black Muslims lol)
Stokely Carmichael
lead his followers in a march. "We shall Overcome" (no they wont lol)
Black Power
A call for black people to begin to define their own goals and to lead their own organizations. (it's non existent dont worry about it)
Black Panthers
advocated violence in order to achieve equal rights
Civil Rights Act of 1968
ended discrimination in housing
Affirmative Action
A policy designed to give special compensation to a previously disadvantaged group.
Kerner Commission
group set up to investigate the causes of race riots in American cities in the 1960s
Little Rock Nine
the first black students who went to school with white students
24th Amendment (1964)
Abolishes poll taxes
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