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civil right movement
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| civil right movement | the struggle of African Americans for equal rights in the 1950sand 1960s |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | the supreme court ruled the -separate -but -equal- standard was constitutional |
| brown v. board of education | the supreme court ruled the segregated schools were -inherently in equal |
| Thurgood Marshall | the first African American on the supreme court, he was an NAACP attorney |
| martin Luther ing | a leader of the civil rights movement who believe in non-violent and passive resistance to unjust laws as a way to bring change |
| rosa par | eing a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955by refusing to surrender her seat on the bus to a white passenger |
| orval faubus | governor of arensawhho favored segergationanddenyed the implement of brown v. board of education |
| George Wallace | A restaurant owner in Georgia who threatened violence to African Americans seeking to enter his white only restaurant |
| Civil Rights Acts | (1964) prohibited discrimination bases on race, color, religion and ethnic origin in hotels, restaurants, and all places of employment doing business with the federal government or cross state lines |
| President Johnson signed an Executive Order requiring employers with federal contracts to take positive steps to raise the numbers of their minority employees to correct pass imbalances | |
| Billy Graham | A famous Christian preacher and spiritual advisory to several U.S. Presidents who became an outspoken opponent of segregation |
| Twenty-Fourth Amendment | (1964) eliminated poll taxes in federal elections |
| Selma Marches | A march in Alabama to demand the vote for African Americans; the demonstrators were attacked, prompting president Johnson to introduce a voting rights bill |
| Voting Rights Acts of 1965 | Ended polls taxes, suspended literacy tests required to vote, led to a substantial increase in the numbers of African American voters |
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