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Aberdeen 20th Cent.
Aberdeen Civil Rights/20th Century
Question | Answer |
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The separation of people, usually based on race or religion | Segregation |
Full equaliy of all races in the use of public facilities and services | Integration |
An unfair difference in the treatment of people | Discrimination |
Abolishment of racial segregation | Desegregation |
One school for blacks and one for whites, made legal by "Jim Crow" laws | Separate but equal |
Virginia's government fought to "resist" the integration of public schools | Massive Resistance |
Ruled in 1954 that "separate but equal" public schools were unconstitutional | Brown v Board of Education |
Legally established segregation and reinforced prejudices held by whites | Jim Crow Laws |
A fee that had to be paid so you could vote | Poll Tax |
Led the Massive Resistance movement against the desegregation of schools | Harry F Byrd |
US President who wrote the League of Nations and won a Nobel Peace Prize | Woodrow Wilson |
A plan for world peace written by Woodrow Wilson | League of Nations |
General of the Army who wrote an economic plan for world peace and won a Nobel Peace Prize. | George C Marshall |
An economic plan for world peace | Marshall Plan |
First African American woman to establish a bank and become bank president | Maggie L Walker |
Virginia governor known for "Pay As You Go" | Harry F Byrd |
A policy for road improvements written by Harry F Byrd | Pay As You Go |
Lawyer and civil rights leader who played a key role in Brown v Board of Education | Oliver Hill |
First African American winner of a major men's tennis singles championship | Arthur Ashe |
Virginia governor who promoted racial equality and appointed more African Americans and women to positions in state government | A Linwood Holton |
Virginia governor who was the first African American to be elected a state governor in the US | L Douglas Wilder |
The county where coal is found | Tazewell |
Amendment that states No Slavery | thirteenth |
Amendment that states African Americans are citizens and must follow all laws | fourteenth |
Amendment that gave everyone the right to vote | fifteenth |
The word that means the process of rebuilding | Reconstruction |