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History Ch. 27
History Civil Rights Ch. 27
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| de jure segregation | segregation imposed by law |
| de facto segregation | segregation by unwritten custom or tradition |
| Thurgood Marshall | He had been turned down by the University of Maryland Law School because he was black. Later he joined the law team that won Brown vs. Board of Ed. trial. |
| Earl Warren | Chief Justice who decided that segregation in public education violated the US Constitution in Brown vs. Board of Education. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1957 | law that established a federal civil Rights commission |
| Rosa Parks | was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. |
| Montgomery bus boycott | protest by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, against racial segregation in the bus system |
| Brown vs. Board of Education | trial that declared that segregated public school was against the US Constitution |
| What happened in Little Rock, Arkansas after desegregation? | Nine African Americans were escorted to and from school while an angry "white" mob screamed at them. |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | a Baptist minister who led nonviolent protests against segregation and oppression. |
| Why did the struggle for segregation intensify after WWII? | many African Americans went to war and fought for the US. They felt like the US was their country and they should be treated like it. |
| sit-in | form of protest where participants sit and refuse to move |
| SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) | grass-roots movement founded in 1960 by young civil rights activists |
| freedom ride | 1961 protest by activist who rode buses through southern states to test their compliance with the ban on segregation on interstate buses |
| James Meredith | air force veteran who won a federal court case that ordered the all white University of Mississippi to let him enroll as a student. |
| Medgar Evers | civil rights activist that helped James Meredith win the right to enroll at a Univ. of Mississippi. |
| March on Washington | 1963 demonstration in which more than 200,000 people rallied for economic equality and civil rights |
| filibuster | tactic by which senators give long speeches to hold up legislative business |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | outlawed discrimination in public places and employment based on race, religion, or national origin |
| Freedom Summer | 1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi |
| Voting Rights Act | law that banned literacy tests and empowered the federal government to oversee voter registration |
| Twenty-fourth Amendment | constitutional amendment that banned the poll tax as a voting requirement |
| Malcolm X | African American radical who converted to Islam and became an Islamic minister, not ever fully accepting whites |
| Nation of Islam | African American religious organization founded in 1930 that advocated separation of the races |
| black power | movement in the 1960s that urged African Americans to use their collective political and economic power to gain equality |
| Black Panthers | organization of militant African Americans founded in 1966 |
| Kerner Commission | group set up to investigate the causes of race riots in American cities in the 1960s |
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