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Civil Rights Movement Terms
Civil Rights terms
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11th Grade
05/08/2011

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Lydon Baines Johnson
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The elected President before the civil rights movement had started
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Economic Opportunities Act
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a program that provided youth with loans. created JB Corps, VISTA, project head start, and community action programs.
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Great Society
Definition
A program by LBJ to reduce racial problems and poverty and to provide a better standard of living.
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Medicare
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provided hospital insurance and low cost medical insurance for 65 and older
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Medicate
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extension of health insurance
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Immigration Act of 1965
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opened doors to Europeans and ended quotas.
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Warren Court
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the supreme court during Earl Warren. the court cases were charges to free speech and civil rights stuff.
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Reapportionment
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the way states redraw election districts based on the changing number of people in them.
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Plessy Vs. Ferguson
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the case which said, "separate but equal"
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Thurgood Marshall
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The first black supreme court justice. he was the in the case Brown vs Board.
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Brown Vs. Board of Education
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the case was about a girl who couldn't go to school 4 blocks away, so had to go to school 21 blocks away. this case reversed the plessy vs Ferguson, "separate but equal"
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Little Rock Nine
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nine black children were supposed to go to an integrated school in Little Rock. they were taunted and name called by whites, so they got federal troops to guard them.
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Rosa Parks
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Involved in the Montgomery bus boycott, refused to give up her seat to a white man
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Martin Luther King JR.
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Civil Rights Activist, in charge of boycott by NAACP. led non violent protests
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference [SCLC]
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the organization that MLK joined.
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Student nonviolent coordinating committee (SNCC)
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a student protest group
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Sit-ins
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the blacks would go the white lunch counters and refuse to leave until they were served. whites beat them up, but they still wouldn't leave.
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Freedom Riders
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civil rights activists who rode buses through the south to challenge segregation
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James Meredith
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won federal court cases allowing him to go to Ole Miss college. the governor of Mississippi wouldn't let him register, so the prez had to get federal troops.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Prohibited discrimination based on race
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Freedom Summer
Definition
project to register blacks to vote in mississippi. college kids came to help too, a lot of them got shot (white)
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Freedom Summer
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project to register blacks to vote in mississippi. college kids came to help too, a lot of them got shot (white)
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Fannie Lou Hammer
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became the voice of the Mississippi's freedom democratic party. they gained lots of support, so Kennedy got scared that they would take all of his votes. he wanted a compromise, but the blacks rejected it.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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eliminated literacy tests so people could vote.
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De Facto Segregation
Definition
segregations in the north, by practice and customs
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De Jure segregation
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separation by the law
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Malcom X
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urged blacks to take control of their own communities. later joined the nation of islam
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Nation of Islam
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Black Muslims, really radical. led by the teachings of Elijah Muhammad.
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Stokely Carmichael
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joined a walk with MLK, Floyd Mckissick.
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Black Power
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"call for black people to begin to define their own goals" in a speech by Stokely Carmichael.
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Black Panthers
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Invented by Huey Newton and Bobby Seal to fight against police brutality in the ghettos. they dressed in all black and sold stuff by Mao Zedong.
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Kerner Commission
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organization to investigate the cause of urban riots. the answer was white racism. but the government ignored the answer.
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
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ended discrimination in housing which led to more opportunities.
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Affirmative Action
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a program which people adapted in society. it basically was that schools would hire people who had suffered discrimination.
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