US outcome E part 2 (civil rights)

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Plessy V Fergusson 

• : In 1896, the Supreme Court rules that a Louisiana law requiring "separate but equal" public accommodations is constitutional.

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NAACP lawyer who won the Brown V Board case

Thurgood Marshall

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believed in non violent protest and wanted everyone to live peacefully

Martin Luther King Jr

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what act removed the literacy test given to some voters at polling places? 

voting rights act of 1965

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during the Civil Rights Movement, what was MLK main form of protest?

Non Violent protest (sit ins, marches...etc) 

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MLK founded this group to carry our nonviolent protest segregation and racism

Southern Christian leadership conference

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President who ordered soldiers to protect African American Students integrate the high school in Little Rock Arkansas

Dwight Eisenhower

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"I Have a Dream" Speech (need speaker and location/event where speech was given for points) 

Given by MLK at the March on Washington

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After Rosa Parks arrest, what event was sparked? 

the Montgomery Bus Boycott 

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What did the Civil Rights movement loose when Kennedy was assassinated?  

a president who supported Civil Rights 

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Sit ins 

used by members of SNCC to desegregate lunch counters in the south

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President who demanded Congress pass a Civil Right bill but did not live long enough to see it

John F Kennedy 

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Freedom Riders

helped integrate bus terminals in the south

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Give an example of De Facto segregation

black or white neighborhoods 

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What does SCLC stand for? 

Southern Christian Leadership conference

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March on Washington

largest march for civil right, purpose was to push JFK’s civil right bill through

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Civil Right Bill of 1964

made segregation in public places illegal

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nick name given to laws that allowed segregated buses, restaurants and other public facilities

Jim Crow Laws

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what were the 2 first focuses of the Civil Rights movement?

ending segregation and gaining voting rights 

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How did Thurgood Marshall impact the Civil Right's movement? 

He won Brown V board of Education 

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first African American to attend a university in Mississippi

James Meredith

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made housing discrimination illegal

Civil Right Bill of 1968

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What did Brown V Board over turn

Separate but equal 

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separate but equal was outlawed by what court case? 

Brown V Board of Education

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What was the main idea of the "I Have a Dream" speech?

peace, equality (answers may vary)