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Stufflet APUSH U8P2
Unit 8--Part 2-- APUSH
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Thurgood Marshall | leader of NAACP in 1950s; later became 1st black Supreme Court justice |
| Brown v Board of Education | court case that ruled state mandated segregation of schools violated Constitution (equal protection under law) |
| Rosa Parks | black woman whose refusal to relinquish her seat on bus sparked awareness of civil rights in 1954 |
| Martin Luther King | leader of Montgomery Bus Boycott and Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
| Little Rock Central High School | high school that was forcibly desegregated by US troops in 1957 on the orders of Eisenhower |
| Harry Truman | President who integrated the armed forces |
| Silent Spring | book by Rachel Carson that raised concerns about the use of pesticides in agriculture; credited with starting modern environmental movement |
| Stokely Carmichael | helped form Black Panther Party and used term Black Power |
| Malcolm X | part of Nation of Islam; believed in black self-defense and immediate equality with whites; moderated after his Hajj |
| Jackie Robinson | integrated Major League Baseball in 1948 |
| Freedom Summer | attempted to register African-Americans in Mississippi to vote in 1964 |
| Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee | college students who organized the sit-in movements in 1960 |
| Letter from a Birmingham Jail | document that outlined non-violent civil disobedience and direct action |
| March on Washington | focused on job creation, site of the "I Have a Dream" speech |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Outlawed discrimination in public transport and facilities (hotels, restaurants) |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Outlawed literacy tests; said can’t limit vote based on race, color, or language minority status |
| Cesar Chavez | led United Farm Workers union of mostly Mexican laborers |
| Roe v Wade | said states could not limit abortion in the 1st trimester |
| Griswold v Connecticut | allowed for birth control |
| Stonewall Uprising | considered to be the start of the modern gay rights movement |
| Gideon v Wainwright | gives accused the right to an attorney |
| Loving v Virginia | said laws banning interracial marriage violated 14th Amendment |
| Three Mile Island | nuclear accident in Pennsylvania that fed the growing environmental movement |
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