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Vocabulary
Supreme Court Cases
KAYRI KNOWS
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What is?
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These laws enforced strict ssegregation of the races
What are Jim Crow Laws
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Segregating public education in schools at all grade levels
What is Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka Kansas. NAACP challenged "seperate but equal" principle
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what was the conflict that erupted in Little Rock Arkansas
Little Rock school board gradually agreed to desegregate public schools. 9 african americans volunteered to enroll. The Arkansas governor opposed integration and called the Arkansas National Guard. Soldiers blocked the 9 students way when they came to start school that day
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hOW DID mARTIN LUTHER KING JR PLAY A ROLE IN CIVIL RIGHTS
What is CALLED FOR PROTESTS TO BE NONVIOLENT
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what is the cvivil rights act?
What is US CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION INVESTIGATES VIOLATIONS OF CIVIL RIGHGHTS
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1955 protest action to end segregation on buses in Montgomery, Alabama
What was the Montgomery bus boycott?
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Did the Supreme court agree with the NAACP'S finding of seperate but equal principle?
they agreed that segregated public education violated the constitution
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What did president Eisenhower do about the problem in little rock?
What is he did not urge the nation to rapidly desegregate schools. however he sent federal trroops to little rock to protect the students and to enforce the courts decision
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What do you think would have happened if the Montgomery bus boycott didn't take place?
What is Buses in Montgomery would still have been segregated
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segregation existed in states that had no laws mandatinging segregation. But because of unwritten customs or by tradition it became a fact of life
What is de facto segregation
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Ruling that segregation was constitutional as long as facilities for blacks and whites were "seperate but equal"
What is Supreme Court Case Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Because President Truman could not get congress to pass his initiatives, he did use his executive power to do what in 1948?
What is order the desegregation of the military
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Why do you think World War I and II strengthened African Americans' awareness of their civil rights
After fighting against racism in Europe, they were no longer willing to accept it at home
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This person joined the NAACP in 1936. He was a supreme court justice (judge) from 1965 until 1991. He died in 1993
Who is Thurgood Marshall
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What did President Harry Truman do to investigate race relations and what did they recommend?
He appointed a committee to investigate civil rights..They recommended an antilynching law and federal protection of voting rights
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How did Jackie Robinson break the wall of segregation?
What is he was the 1st african american to play major league baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947
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What would result if MLKJ did not take part in the Civil Rights movement?
What is The movement would not have lasted long and not all demands would have been met
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What does NAACP stand for and what did they do?
What is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People They became the largest and most powerful civil rights organization in the nation including blacks and whites and some lawyers
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How did world war II set the stage for the rise of the modern civil rights movement? Provide 3 examples
1. President Roosevelt banned discrimination in defense industries in 1941 2. In 1944 Gunnar Myrdal wrote an article in 1944 and brought about the issue of American prejudice to the public 3. African Americans began to fight for their rights after being discriminated against in Europe fighting WWII
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Provide 3 examples of how African Americans were treated in the north
1. denied housing in many neighborhoods 2.could only get low-paying jobs 3.
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Give me 3 examples of segregation in theb public arena?
1. segregation of schools 2. " " of hospitals 3.transportation 4. resteraunts 5. cemeteries 6. beaches 7. playing checkers with each other 8. drinking fountains
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What role did the media play in non violent protests
What is The media showed police brutality on non-violent protesters and gave light to the civil rights protest.