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Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2.0
Freedom Riders Video
People
People 2.0
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Tactic by which senators give long speeches to hold up legislature
Filibuster
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Form of protest where participants sit and refuse to move
Sit-in
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What kind of people rode on the freedom rides?
Black and white Americans
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Refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery Alabama bus and was arrested for not following the law
Rosa Parks
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Assassin who killed President John F. Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
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Group set up to investigate the causes of race riots in American cities in the 1960s
Kerner Commission
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Protest by activists who rode buses through southern states to test their compliance with the ban on segregation on interstate buses
Freedom Ride
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What were the two kinds of buses that took off with Freedom Riders in it?
Trail Ways and Grey Hound
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Public safety commissioner for the city of Birmingham, Alabama who used fire hoses and police dogs to attack protesters
Eugen T. Bull Connor
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Former teacher from Southern Texas who was a vice-president and would later become president of the United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax
24th Amendment
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Segregation by unwritten custom or traditon
De facto segregation
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In what town did tragedy strike for the freedom riders?
Anniston Alabama
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Arizona Senator whose views were drastically different of President Johnson's and would also run against him in the 1964 election
Barry Goldwater
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African American lawyer from Baltimore, Maryland who helped the NAACP with their claim that there was corruption in the courts
Thurgood Marshall
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Federal program created in 1965 to provide basic hospital insurance to most Americans over the age of 65
Medicare
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Different ways the judiciary uses to interpret the law, particularly constitutional documents and legislation
Judicial Interpretation
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What was the main goal of the freedom riders
defy segregation codes in the south
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Reform programs included the New Frontier
John F. Kennedy
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Air Force Veteran who sought to enroll at an all-white university
James Meredith
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Federal program created in 1965 to provide low-cost health insurance to most Americans over the age of 65
Medicaid
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law that established a federal Civil Rights Commission
Civil Rights Act of 1957
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What was the intended route of the Freedom Riders?
Washington DC to New Orleans Louisiana
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Baptist minister who would become one of the most-well known civil rights activists during the 1960s
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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African American radical during the civil rights era who believed in separate identify and racial unity of African American communites
Malcolm X