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Civil rights test
Question | Answer |
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15th amendment | guaranteed that the right to vote could not be denied based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude |
how states tried to get around the 15th ammendment | imposed literary tests and poll taxes |
Greensboro lunch counter sit in | In 1960 four black freshmen in Greensboro walked into the F. W. Woolworth store and quietly sat down at the lunch counter. They were refused service, but they stayed until closing time. The next morning they came with twenty-five more students |
MLK views on the Veitnmam war | took a public and unpopular stance against it declaring it an enemy of the poor in the United States and saying it was immoral and unjust insisted that it was morally imperative for the USA to take radical steps to stop the war through nonviolent means |
civil rights act of 1964 | prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin |
voting rights act of 1965 | August 6 by President Lyndon Johnson banned literacy testing, provided federal oversight where few African Americans were registered to voted, and gave the federal government the right to monitor poll taxes. |
civil rights act of 1968 | prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, sex, (and as amended) handicap and family status |
Chicano movement | In the 1960s, a radicalized Mexican-American movement began pushing for a new identification and to end discrimination and negative stereotypes against Mexican Americans |
24th amendment | January 23, 1964. It abolished and forbids the federal and state governments from imposing taxes on voters during federal elections. |
Malcolm x | a American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. he was a vocal advocate for Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the Black community. |
march on Washington | The event focused on employment discrimination, civil rights abuses against African Americans and support for the Civil Rights Act that the Kennedy Administration was attempting to pass through Congress. |
Diane Nash | She became one of the founding members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee or SNCC in 1961. Was a part of the nashville lunch counter sit in |
Stockley carmichel | key leader in the development of the Black Power movement, first while leading the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) |
James Earl ray | convicted of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. |
highlander folk school | In the 1950s, the folk school made a commitment to empower students to become agents of social change located in mounteagle TN |