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Civil Rights 1
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Criminal Justice 1
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The 13th Amendment
Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, this amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
This was an important United States Supreme Court case that upheld state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
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Jim Crow laws
These were racial segregation state and local laws that continued until 1965 mandating racial segregation in all public facilities in the southern U.S.A.
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A Grand Jury
This kind of jury conducts official proceedings to investigate potential criminal conduct and to determine whether criminal charges should be brought on.
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The 6th amendment
This amendment guarantees the rights of criminal defendants, including the right to a public trial without unnecessary delay, the right to a lawyer, the right to an impartial jury, and the right to know who your accusers are and the nature of the charges and evidence against you.
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The 14th amendment
This amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War.
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Brown vs. Board of Education
This was an important case in which the Court declared state laws for separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation in public education.
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Rosa Parks
Almost one year after this lady refused to give up her seat on a bus, the Supreme Court rules — on November 13, 1956 — that Montgomery Alabama's segregation laws are unconstitutional.
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The exclusionary rule
This rule says that evidence collected or analyzed in violation of the defendant's constitutional rights is sometimes inadmissible for a criminal prosecution in a court of law
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Misdemeanor
This is the name of any "lesser" criminal act in some common law legal systems. They are generally punished less severely than felonies.
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The 15th Amendment
This Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
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LBJ - Lyndon B. Johnson
This is the 36th president of the USA. He renewed the effort of passing a civil rights bill that had been submitted by President Kennedy before him.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964
This civil rights act banned segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public (known as "public accommodations").
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Plea Bargain
This is an agreement in a criminal case between the prosecutor and defendant whereby the defendant agrees to plead guilty to a particular charge in return for some concession or deal from the prosecutor.
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Felony
This is the name of a more serious crime punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of one year.
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NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
This group is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination"
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JFK - John F. Kennedy
The well known 35th president of the USA, he supported racial integration and civil rights for African Americans in the USA despite the ongoing Jim Crow laws in the south - until he was assassinated in 1963.
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The Little Rock Nine
What is the name of the group of 9 students who were registered to attend the previously all-white Little Rock Central High in 1957.
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The 4th amendment
This amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures of property by the government. It protects against arbitrary arrests, and is the basis of the law regarding search warrants, stop-and-frisk, safety inspections, wiretaps, and other forms of surveillance.
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indictment
A formal accusation that a person has committed a crime is called an______________.
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SNCC - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
This Committee, often pronounced "snick", was one of the most important organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
The 34th president, from 1953 to 1961, he wanted to end segregation in the District of Columbia, including the Federal Government, and any segregation in the Armed Forces.
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Nonviolent civil disobedience
What did Martin Luther King stress as a civil rights leader?
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The 5th amendment
This amendment gives many rights for criminal and civil court proceedings. In criminal cases, it guarantees the right to a grand jury, forbids “double jeopardy,” and protects against self-incrimination. It also requires that “due process of law”.
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Arraignment
This is the name of the reading of a criminal charge document to inform the defendant of the charges against them.