The Civil-Rights Movement Flash Cards

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Title: The Civil-Rights Movement
Description: The civil-rights movement in the United States.
Number of Cards: 19
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Author: louier589
Created: 2011-03-09
Tags: civil rights
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    • Thurgood Marshall
    • lead a group of best lawyers.
    • Brown v. Board of Educational of Topeka
    • the father of Linda Brown had charged the board of education of Topeka of violating Linda’s right by denying her admission to an white school.
    • Rosa Parks
    • a seamstress and an NAACP officer.
    • Martin Luther King Jr.
    • an ordained minister since 1948.
    • SCLC
    • a group of ministers and civil right leaders.
    • SNCC
    • a national protest.
    • Freedom Riders
    • civil rights activists who rode buses to the south.
    • Civil Rights Act 1964
    • prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender.
    • Freedom Summer
    • CORE and SNCC began registering as many African Americans as possible.
    • Voting Rights Act 1965
    • eliminated so called literacy tests that had dissqualified many voters.
    • De Facto Segregation
    • segregation that exists by practice and custom.
    • Malcom X
    • A leader who stood up to segregation.
    • Nation of Islam
    • The black Muslims.
    • Stokely Carmichael
    • a leader of the SNCC.
    • Black Power
    • the slogan of Stokely Carmichael.
    • Black Panthers
    • a political party that fought police brutality in the ghetto.
    • Kerner Comission
    • appointed to study causes of urban violence.
    • Civil Riights Act 1968
    • ended discrimination in housing.
    • Affirmative Action
    • involve making special efforts to hire of enroll victims of discrimination.