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ch 18 11/16/10
Ch 18 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| de jure segregation | segregation imposed by law |
| de facto segregation | segregation by unwritten custom of tradition |
| Thurgood Marshall | African American lawyer from Baltimore that headed the legal team in the NAACP |
| Brown vs. Board of Education | the trail in which the NAACP challenged the term "separate but equal" |
| Earl Warren | Chief Justice who supported the Brown decision in the "Brown vs. Board of Education" trial |
| Civil Rights Act of 1957 | law the established a federal Civil Rights Commission |
| Rosa Parks | an African American seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a local bus to a white person, kick-started the civil rights movement |
| Montgomery bus boycott | 1955-1956 protest by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, against racial segregation in the bus system |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Baptist minister who spoke an inspirational speech in the MIA meeting |
| sit-in | form of protest where participants sit and refuse to move |
| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) | grassroots movement founded in 1960 by young civil rights activists |
| freedom ride | 1961 protest by activists who rose buses through southern states to test their compliance with the ban on segregation on interstate buses |
| James Meredith | Air Force African American veteran who enrolled in the all-white University of Mississippi "Ole Miss", won the court case for the university to desegregate |
| Medgar Evers | civil rights activist who was instrumental in the "Ole Miss" effort |
| March on Washington | 1963 demonstration in which more than 200,000 people rallied for economic equality and civil rights |
| filibuster | tactic by which senators give long speeches to hold up legislative business |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | outlawed discrimination in public places and employment based on race, religion, or national origin |
| Freedom Summer | 1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi |
| Frannie Lou Hamer | one of the MFDP's leaders who gave a powerful testimony at the Democratic Convention in New Jersey |
| Voting Rights Act | law that banned literacy tests and empowered the federal government to oversee voter registration |
| Twenty-fourth Amendment | constitutional amendment that banned the poll tax as a voting requirement |
| Kerner Commission | group set up to investigate the causes of race riots in American cities in the 1960s |
| Malcolm X | the most well-known African American radical |
| Nation of Islam | African American religious founded in 1930 that advocated separation of the races |
| black power | movement in the 1960s that urged African Americans to use their collective political and economic power to gain equality |
| Black Panthers | organization of militant African Americans founded in 1966 |
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