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C16 USH
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Grassroots activism | political movements driven by people who do not individually have much power, but can be very effective together |
| CORE | Organization that fought discrimination through nonviolent acts of protest |
| A Phillip Randolph | Journalist, labor organizer, and established the first African American trade union |
| Bayard Rustin | Civil rights leader, gay rights activist, helped with the March on Washington |
| Mary Church Terrell | Activist and NAACP member. Led antidiscrimination struggle in D.C. |
| President's Committee on Civil Rights (PCCR) | Committee driven to protect all Americans' civil rights |
| dehumanized | to treat people as if they are not human beings |
| integrated | allowing the free association of people of different races or ethnicities |
| desegregation | the process of ending a policy that forces the separation of groups of people in public spaces |
| Mendez v Westminster | federal lawsuit that challenged the "Seperate but equal" doctrine |
| Brown v Board of Education | Civil rights lawsuit that reached the supreme court. Came to the decision that "separate but equal" is inherently unequal |
| Plessy v Ferguson | The case that paved the way for Brown v Board, stated that segregation of Mexican, Native, and Asian Americans was unconstitutional |
| Sweatt v Palmer | University of Texas must admit Sweatt to the original law under the 14th amendment instead of creating a separate law school |
| Thurgood Marshall | Civil rights lawyer and later Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
| civil disobedience | the nonviolent disobeying of laws as a form of protest |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | a mass protest, sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks, against the racial segregation practices of the public bus system in Montgomery, Alabama |
| Rosa Parks | an African-American woman and civil rights activist who refused to give up her bus seat and was arrested for it |
| Jo Ann Robinson | President of the Women's Political Council who distributed the boycott flyers |
| Emmett Till | an African-American boy who was brutally murdered after white men accused him of flirting with a white woman |
| sit-ins | an organized protest where people sit down and refuse to leave |
| "Freedom Riders" | interracial groups who rode bushes in the South and ignored "white" and "colored" signs when they stopped at restrooms and lunch counters so that a series of federal court decisions declaring segregation illegal in facilities |
| SCLC | Promoted racial justice through peaceful means and provided assistance/guidance to local protest groups |
| SNCC | a political organization put together by African American students |
| Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party | a grassroots political group established as an alternative to the conservative arm of the democratic party |
| solitary confinement | a form of punishment, isolating a prisoner from contact with other people |
| Eugene T. Bull Connor | the commissioner of Public Safety and had ties to the KKK |
| George Wallace | Alabama's segregationist governor who blocked two African-American students from registering at university |
| voter registration drive | an effort by groups/government to sign up as many eligible voters in a target area as possible |
| Freedom Summer | The Mississippi Summer Project, an expanded version of the voter registration drive |
| March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom | Demonstration on August 28, 1963. A rally in support of civil rights, led by Bayard Rustin and A. Phillip Randolph |
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