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Civil Rights Vocabulary

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

CHAPTER 14 SECTION 1 l

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DE JURE SEGREGATION

Separation enforced by law

DE FACTO SEGREGATION

Racial segregation-- especially in public schools

Thurgood Marshall

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

Earl Warren

American jurist and politician, who served as the 30th Governor of California
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Brown V Board of Education

THE SUPREME COURT CASE THAT CAUSED INTEGRATION
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Civil Rights Act of 1957

VOTING RIGHTS BILL--FIRST FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION
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ROSA PARKS

She sat in a empty seat and when asked to get up for white man she refused

Montgomery Bus Boycott

protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system
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MLK, jr.

American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement
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Chapter 14 Section 2

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sit in

a group of people occupy a place as a form of protest.

SNCC

most important organizations of the Civil Rights

FREEDOM RIDE

civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States

James Meredith

Civil Rights Movement figure, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran

Medgar Evers

Civil Rights activist who was murdered by a segregationalist

March on Washington

A march for jobs and freedom

Filibuster

prolonged speech that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly

Civil Rights Act of 1964

landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination

Chapter 14 Section 3

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Freedom Summer

volunteer campaign in attempt to register black voters

Fannie Lou Hammer

American voting rights activist

Voting Rights Act

LEGISLATION THAT PROHIBITS RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AGAINST BLACK VOTERS

Twenty-Fourth Amendment

BANNED POLL TAX

Kerner Commission

The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders

Malcom X

AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSLIM MINISTER AND HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST

Nation of Islam

African American political and religious movement

Black Power

POLITICAL CAMPAIGN AIMED AT ACHIEVING SELF DETERMINATION FOR AFRICAN AMERCIANS

Black Panthers

PEOPLE WHO PRACTCIED MILITANT SELF-DEFENSE OF MINORITY COMMUNITIES