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Stack #41823
Civil Rights Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| discrimination | prejudice for or against someone based on race, religion, sex or other classification |
| desegregation | the elimination of segregation (separating people by race |
| integration | opposite of segregation; bringing all people together |
| busing | transporting students from outside communities to neighborhood schools to provide a racial balance. |
| affirmative action | steps taken to increase the representation of women and minorities, especially in jobs and educatiom, often by use of timetables or quotas. |
| quota system | system designed to give preference to blacks and other minority groups to offset past discrimination. |
| Southern Manifesto | A resistance movement by more than 100 southern members of Congress in March 1956 who disagreed with Supreme Court on Brown amd promised to bring about the reversal of this decision. |
| Orval Faubus | Governor of Arkansas in 1957 who sent in National Guard to prevent black children from attending school in Little Rock |
| white flight | the moving of white people from urban areas where blacks moved to, to suburbs |
| Watts, California | black ghetto in Los Angelos where violent riots took place after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 took place. |
| Brown v. Board of Ed | groundbreaking Supreme Court case in 1954 ruling that public schools could not be separated by race. |
| Rosa Parks | black seamstress from Montgomery Alabama refused to give up her seat on bus and was arrested on December 1, 1955 |
| Martin Luther King | : Baptist black minister from Montgomery, Alabama believed in peaceful and nonviolent protests for civil rights |
| Thurgood Marshall | first black Supreme Court justice appointed by President LB Johnson in 1967 |
| James Meredith | first black and Air Force veteran to attend University of Mississippi; In 1966 he tried to walk from Memphis Tennesse to Jackson |
| Malcolm X | radical black leader who was ex-convict and member of Black Muslims. He rejected integration and though blacks should have their own nation. Died in February 1965 |
| Black Panther Party | a black nationalist group using violent means founded in 1966 by Huey Newton, Bobby Seale and Richard Aoki . |
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