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History Civil Rights Ch. 27

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de jure segregation   segregation imposed by law  
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de facto segregation   segregation by unwritten custom or tradition  
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Thurgood Marshall   He had been turned down by the University of Maryland Law School because he was black. Later he joined the law team that won Brown vs. Board of Ed. trial.  
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Earl Warren   Chief Justice who decided that segregation in public education violated the US Constitution in Brown vs. Board of Education.  
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Civil Rights Act of 1957   law that established a federal civil Rights commission  
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Rosa Parks   was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.  
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Montgomery bus boycott   protest by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, against racial segregation in the bus system  
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Brown vs. Board of Education   trial that declared that segregated public school was against the US Constitution  
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What happened in Little Rock, Arkansas after desegregation?   Nine African Americans were escorted to and from school while an angry "white" mob screamed at them.  
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Martin Luther King, Jr.   a Baptist minister who led nonviolent protests against segregation and oppression.  
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Why did the struggle for segregation intensify after WWII?   many African Americans went to war and fought for the US. They felt like the US was their country and they should be treated like it.  
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sit-in   form of protest where participants sit and refuse to move  
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SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)   grass-roots movement founded in 1960 by young civil rights activists  
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freedom ride   1961 protest by activist who rode buses through southern states to test their compliance with the ban on segregation on interstate buses  
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James Meredith   air force veteran who won a federal court case that ordered the all white University of Mississippi to let him enroll as a student.  
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Medgar Evers   civil rights activist that helped James Meredith win the right to enroll at a Univ. of Mississippi.  
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March on Washington   1963 demonstration in which more than 200,000 people rallied for economic equality and civil rights  
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filibuster   tactic by which senators give long speeches to hold up legislative business  
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Civil Rights Act of 1964   outlawed discrimination in public places and employment based on race, religion, or national origin  
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Freedom Summer   1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi  
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Voting Rights Act   law that banned literacy tests and empowered the federal government to oversee voter registration  
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Twenty-fourth Amendment   constitutional amendment that banned the poll tax as a voting requirement  
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Malcolm X   African American radical who converted to Islam and became an Islamic minister, not ever fully accepting whites  
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Nation of Islam   African American religious organization founded in 1930 that advocated separation of the races  
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black power   movement in the 1960s that urged African Americans to use their collective political and economic power to gain equality  
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Black Panthers   organization of militant African Americans founded in 1966  
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Kerner Commission   group set up to investigate the causes of race riots in American cities in the 1960s  
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