Post War Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Double V | "victory abroad, victory at home" |
Brown vs. Board of Education | a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional |
Briggs vs. Elliot | a case filed by a group of African American parents in Clarendon County, SC asking for a school bus |
Elmore vs. Rice | the court ruled that the primary election be open to all eligible voter in S.C. |
desegregation | ending the separation of whites and blacks |
Modjeska Monteith Simkins | was an important leader of African-American public health reform, social reform and the civil rights movement in SC |
Strom Thurmond | served 48 years as a US Senator from S.C. and wrote the Southern Manifesto |
Orangeburg Massacre | 9 SC Highway Patrol officers in Orangeburg, SC, fired into a crowd of protesters demonstrating against segregation in a bowling alley near the campus of SC State |
Civil Rights Act of 1965 | a federal law that authorized federal action against segregation in public accommodations, public facilities and employment |
Voting Rights Act of 1965 | it eliminated devices such as literary tests that had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people |
Septima Clark | a black schoolteacher who fought for equal pay between white and black teachers |
Matthew Perry | was instrumental in bringing court cases in SC to challenge segregation |
Friendship Nine | a group of African American men who went to jail after staging a sit-in at a segregated McCrory's lunch counter. Adopted the "jail no bail" tactic. |
Dixicrat | any Southern Democrats who seceded from the party in 1948 in opposition to its policy of extending civil rights |
filibuster | an action such as a prolonged speech that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly |
24th amendment | anti-poll tax |
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