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Wild Card
100
A tax of a fixed amount per person and payable as a requirement for the right to vote
What is Poll Tax
100
The act of occupying seats or sitting down on the floor of an establishment as a form of organized protest
What is a Sit-in
100
1965; invalidated the use of any test or device to deny the vote and authorized federal examiners to register voters in states that had disenfranchised blacks; as more blacks became politically active and elected black representatives, it rboguth jobs, contracts, and facilities and services for the black community, encouraging greater social equality and decreasing the wealth and education gap
What is Voting Rights Act of 1965
100
What is the system of racial segregation in the South that was created in the late nineteenth century following the end of slavery. These laws written in the 1880s and 1890s mandated segregation in public facilities.
What is Jim Crow
200
Said that a citizen could vote only if his grandfather had been able to vote. At the time, the grandfathers of black men in the South had been slaves with no right to vote. Another method for disenfranchising blacks.
What is the Grandfather Clause
200
A group formed in 1966, inspired by the idea of Black Power, that provided aid to black neighborhoods; often thought of as radical or violent.
What is Black Panther Party
200
Ruling by the Supreme Court in 1954 that racial segregation in public schools violates the Fourteenth Amendment's requirement of equal protection of the laws for all persons.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
200
The separation or isolation of a race, class, or group
What is Segregation
300
Farmer who lives on another persons farm and work their own plot. Pay their rent by giving a share of the crops to the landowner
What is a Tenant Farmer
300
Freedmen convicted of vagrancy-- that is, not working; could be sold, fined, or whipped.
What are Vagrancy Laws
300
Group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation
What is Freedom Riders
300
A 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
300
The action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community
What is Integration
400
American civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. Marshall was a tireless advocate for the rights of minorities and the poor.
Who is Thurgood Marshall
400
Segregation enacted into law and imposed by the government
What is De Jure Segregation
400
Nine african american students who first integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.
What is Little Rock Nine
400
Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise 1) Remove military from South, 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet (David Key postmaster general), 3) Federal money for railroad construction and levees on Mississippi river
What is the Compromise of 1877
400
Biological reproduction by partners of different racial categories
What is Miscegenation
500
Spokesperson for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party at the 1964 Democratic Convention
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer
500
Racial segregation that occurs in schools, not as a result of the law, but as a result of patterns of residential settlement. By Custom.
What is De facto Segregation
500
U.S. civil rights organization that played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement of the 20th century.
What is Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
500
In 1964, when blacks and whites together challenged segregation and led a massive drive to register blacks to vote.
What is Freedom Summer
500
A person who rents land, and work for a share of the crops. Farms land they do not own. They get a share of the crops to eat and sell
What is a Sharecropper
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