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Civil Rights Era
Civil Rights Movement
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What is the purpose/methods of the KKK? - | While originally created to attack the Black community, the KKK has evolved to also target: Jewish community, Latinx community, Asian community, Immigrants, Communism, Teaching of Evolution , Birth control/abortion. |
| Civic Action | describes all the things people do to bring about social and political change. A democracy like ours is based on citizens engaging the government. When people take civic action, the government responds. |
| Sit ins | A form of peaceful protest where protesters occupied seats in a segregated facility. |
| Boycotts | People will protest a business by refusing to buy or use their products |
| Marches | Large groups of protestors take to the streets with signs, banners, songs, and chants to promote change. |
| Civil Disobedience | Refusal to obey laws by peaceful form of protest |
| Black Separatism | Political movement that seeks separate economic/cultural development for African Americans |
| Affirmative Action | Program to ensure equal opportunities for applicants base on race |
| Enfranchised | to give a person or group the right to vote in elections or to full citizenship privileges |
| Jim Crow | The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation |
| Sharecropping | Giving a portion of your crops as rent (this kept the poor in a cycle of poverty) |
| How do Plessy v Ferguson and Brown v Board of Education relate/differ? | Plessy v. Ferguson- made separate facilities for Black Americans and whites. Typically schools, facilities etc were not equal. Brown V Board of Ed Supreme court which overturned Plessy V. Ferguson. |
| How do Plessy v Ferguson and Brown v Board of Education relate/differ? | Made separate but equal to be unconstitutional. Both cases dealt with segregation |
| What does the Little Rock 9 tell us about school desegregation? - | Little Rock 9 were not allowed in school after Brown V. Board. The National Guard had to escort students into schools. This shows the government is enforcing desegregation |
| Malcolm X | a radical leader of black nationalism who espoused violence to gain black rights. |
| Martin Luther King Jr | Civil rights activist and leader of the boycott that got arrested for it and used peaceful protest to stop segregation on buses and public transportation with peace. MLK began as a Civil Rights Leader with Montgomery Bus Boycott |
| Rosa Parks | Arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus to a white male. Led to the Montgomery Bus Boycotts. She was became the secretary of the NAACP |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern |
| Fair Housing Act of 1968 | prohibits discrimination in housing based on race, color, religion, sex, disability, etc. |
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