Segregation 1
Court case that said it was ok to have separate facilities for Black and White people as long as they were equal.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Definition of miscegenation
Interracial marriage
First Black player in major league baseball
Jackie Robinson
Oldest civil rights organization
NAACP
Lawyer who argued the case for Linda Brown
Thurgood Marshall
Segregation by custom is known as this
De facto segregation
Segregation by law is known as this
De jure segregation
President Truman was responsible for desegregating this organization
Organization that worked with Black people who had migrated to cities
The National Urban League
Experiment that showed that Black children believed the negative stereotypes about Black people
The doll test
Name for laws that created separate facilities for Black and White people
Jim Crow Laws
Agreements by homeowners that they would not rent or sell their houses to Black people
Restrictive covenants
Barrier created by custom to keep White and Black people separate
The color line
The organization that used the court system to fight for equality
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Reason that Linda Brown and her father decided to sue the Topeka, Kansas school district
She lived close to a white school but she could not attend it and instead had to travel many miles to a Black school
Practice of showing where different races could live within a city
Racial zoning
Practice of drawing district lines in a way that reduces the political power of a group
Gerrymandering
Court case that made restrictive covenants illegal
Shelly v. Kraemer
Organization that organized nonviolent actions against segregation
CORE
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that decided this case
Earl Warren
Groups that would keep Black people in line by using threats and violence
Lynch mobs
Types of jobs that most Black people were able to get
Manual labor/blue collar
Practical reason that the government decided to desegregate the military
They wanted to make sure that Black people continued to enlist in the military
Organization that helped desegregate the defense industry
The National Urban League
Supreme Court case that said that schools must desegregate with "all deliberate speed"
Brown II