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Aberdeen 20th Cent.
Aberdeen Civil Rights/20th Century
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The separation of people, usually based on race or religion | Segregation |
| Full equaliy of all races in the use of public facilities and services | Integration |
| An unfair difference in the treatment of people | Discrimination |
| Abolishment of racial segregation | Desegregation |
| One school for blacks and one for whites, made legal by "Jim Crow" laws | Separate but equal |
| Virginia's government fought to "resist" the integration of public schools | Massive Resistance |
| Ruled in 1954 that "separate but equal" public schools were unconstitutional | Brown v Board of Education |
| Legally established segregation and reinforced prejudices held by whites | Jim Crow Laws |
| A fee that had to be paid so you could vote | Poll Tax |
| Led the Massive Resistance movement against the desegregation of schools | Harry F Byrd |
| US President who wrote the League of Nations and won a Nobel Peace Prize | Woodrow Wilson |
| A plan for world peace written by Woodrow Wilson | League of Nations |
| General of the Army who wrote an economic plan for world peace and won a Nobel Peace Prize. | George C Marshall |
| An economic plan for world peace | Marshall Plan |
| First African American woman to establish a bank and become bank president | Maggie L Walker |
| Virginia governor known for "Pay As You Go" | Harry F Byrd |
| A policy for road improvements written by Harry F Byrd | Pay As You Go |
| Lawyer and civil rights leader who played a key role in Brown v Board of Education | Oliver Hill |
| First African American winner of a major men's tennis singles championship | Arthur Ashe |
| Virginia governor who promoted racial equality and appointed more African Americans and women to positions in state government | A Linwood Holton |
| Virginia governor who was the first African American to be elected a state governor in the US | L Douglas Wilder |
| The county where coal is found | Tazewell |
| Amendment that states No Slavery | thirteenth |
| Amendment that states African Americans are citizens and must follow all laws | fourteenth |
| Amendment that gave everyone the right to vote | fifteenth |
| The word that means the process of rebuilding | Reconstruction |