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22 Cards in this Set
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Separate-but-equal
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Laws segregating African Americans were permitted as long as equal facillities were provided for them.
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de facto segregation
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Segreation by custom & tradition.
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NAACP
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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sit-in
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A form of protest first used by union workers. Protests in resturaunts, cafes, and theatres.
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Thurgood Marshall
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Attorney in the Brown vs. Board of Education trial.
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Linda Brown
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Denied admission into a school in Topeka, Kansas because of her race.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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26-year-old pastor who was a prominent figure in the civil rights movement.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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Set out to eliminate segregation from American society and to exchange African Americans to registar to vote.
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Jesse Jackson
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A student leader at North Carolina Agriculture & technology college who wanted to see things change.
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Elle Baker
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55-year-old executive director of the student nonviolent coordinating committee (SNCC). (SCLC)
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Freedom Riders
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People who boarded several southbound interstate buses to protest African American rights. The buses were firebombed, and many people were injured.
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Fillibuster
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Occurs when a small group of senators take turns speaking and refuse ot stop a debate and allow a bill to come to a vote.
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Cloture
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A motion which cuts off debate and forces a vote.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Gave federal goverment broad power to prevent racial discrimination. Made segregation illegal. Forced school desegregation. Ended discrimination in the work place.
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Poll Tax
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Fees paid in order to vote.
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Racism
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Prejuduce or discrimination towards someone because of his or her race.
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Chicago Movement
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Tried to inprove living habits of poor chicago living habits.
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Richanrd Daley
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Mayor of chicago ordered police to protect marchers.
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Black Power
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Africans Americans should control the social, political, and economic direction of their struggle.
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Stokely Carmichael
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The leader of the SNCC in 1966.
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Malcolm X
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A symbol of the black power movement that sweeped the nation.
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Black Panthers
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Believed an Afican American revolution was nessecary in America.
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