History chapter 29 – Flashcards
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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the first organized movement by African Americans to fight segregation
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JFK
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president who demanded that Congress pass a sweeping civil rights law but did not live to see it enacted
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Black Panthers
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black nationalism, black power and community development was advocated by the ________
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Public accomodations
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the civil rights act of 1964 made segregation illegal in _______
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James Meredith
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veteran who became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi
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LBJ
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president who appointed a committee to study the causes of urban violence
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Political party
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the black panthers were a __________ formed to fight against police brutality in the ghetto
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SCLC
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MLK was a founder and first president of this
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Rosa Parks
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activist whose protest helped spark the Montgomery bus boycott
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Economics
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the main type of pressure exerted by the Montgomery Improvement Association in response to segregation on buses
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de facto
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this is segregation that exists by practice and custom, not by law
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Thurgood Marshall
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NAACP lawyer who argued the Brown v. Board of Education case before the Supreme Court
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MLK
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a major turning point in the civil rights movement was marked by the assassination of this person
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Black power
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King objected to the use of this slogan
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Affirmative action
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one legacy of the civil rights movement that has been challenged in recent years is _______ programs
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Register voters
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the Voting Rights Act of 1965 enabled federal officials to do this
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de facto segregation
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a concentration of urban African Americans in slum areas is an example of this
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MLK
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civil rights leader and minister who believed deeply in the power of nonviolent protest
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Fannie Lou Hamer
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spokesperson for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party at the 1964 Democratic Convention
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Stokely Carmichael
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urged SNCC to stop recruiting whites and to focus on developing African American pride
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Malcolm X
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civil rights leader who became impatient with nonviolence and called for black power
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housing
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the Civil Rights Act of 1968 banned discrimination in this
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Nation of Islam
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headed by Elijah Muhammad, this organization was also known as the Black Muslims
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Freedom riders
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one accomplishment of the ____________ was bringing about a federal ban on segregation in all interstate travel facilities
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Malcolm X
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appealing to many African Americans' anger and frustration over a lack of social and economic power, __________ preached a militant approach to civil rights
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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affirmed the legality of racial segregation and prompted the passage of Jim Crow laws
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Separate but equal
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doctrine relating to public education that was overturned by the supreme court decision in Brown v. Board of Education
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Laws
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de jure segregation is segregation that results from
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Eisenhower
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president who ordered soldiers to protect African American students trying to integrate a white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas
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Kerner commission
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the goal of this was to study the causes of urban violence
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White racism
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the main cause of urban violence
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Mecca
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Malcolm X's trip to ________ helped to soften his attitude toward white people. He began preaching a message of "ballots or bullets"
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Register
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in the summer of 1964, thousands of white college students took park in a campaign to __________ African American voters in Mississippi
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disenfranchisement
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denial of voting rights
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Jim Crow
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African american salve
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Civil Rights Act of 1875
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this was ruled unconstitutional
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plantiff
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person who sues government
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Ella Baker
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SCLC's first director
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George Wallace
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governor of Alabama
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Watts riots
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worse race riots in history
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Reverse discrimination
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against the majority
