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STEELE - Ch. 18 The Civil Rights Movement
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| segregation that is imposed by law | de jure segregation |
| segregation by unwritten custom or tradition | de facto segregation |
| an African American lawyer from Baltimore, that headed the legal team that challenged the legality of segregation | Thurgood Marshall |
| a challenge to segregated public education at all grade levels | Brown vs. Board of Education |
| the supreme court justice who wrote the Brown decision | Earl Warren |
| law that established a federal Civil Rights Commission | Civil Rights Act of 1957 |
| African American who did not give up her seat on a bus and founded a nonprofit institute to help young people improve their school work and interpersonal relationships | Rosa Parks |
| 1955-1956 protest by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, against racial segregation in the bus system | Montgomery bus boycott |
| civil rights leader who believed in nonviolent protests to fight segregation | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| a form of protest where participants sit and refuse to move | sit-in |
| a committee formed to create a grass-roots movement that involved all classes of African Americans in the struggle to defeat white racism and to obtain equality | SNCC - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
| 1961 protest by activists who rode buses through southern states to test their compliance with the ban on segregation on interstate buses | freedom ride |
| a Air Force veteran who sought to enroll at the all-white University of Mississippi in 1962 | James Meredith |
| civil rights activist instrumental in desegregating the University of Mississippi and was assassinated in June 1963 | Medgar Evers |
| 1963 demonstration in which more than 200,000 people rallied for economic equality and civil rights | March on Washington |
| tactic by which senators give long speeches to hold up legislative business | filibuster |
| outlawed discrimination in public places and employment based on race, religion, or national origin | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| 1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi | Freedom Summer |
| one of the leaders of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party who described how she had been treated because she wanted "to register" and "live as a decent human being" | Fannie Lou Hamer |
| law that banned literacy tests and empowered the federal government to oversee voter registration | Voting Rights Act |
| constitutional amendment that banned poll tax as a voting requirement | 24th Amendment |
| group set up to investigate the causes of race riots in American cities in the 1960s | Kerner Commission |
| most well-known African American radical who was also a leader of the Nation of Islam | Malcolm X |
| a religious group that prescribed strict rules of behavior, including no drugs or alcohol, and demanded a separation of the races | Nation of Islam |
| movement in the 1960s that urged African Americans to use their collective political and economic power to gain equality | black power |
| organization of militant African Americans founded in 1966 | Black Panthers |
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