History of Racism
What was the system of racial segregation laws in the U.S. called?
Jim Crow Laws
MLK (Martin Luther King Jr.)
What is discrimination based on a person’s skin color or ethnicity called?
Racism
Who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama?
Rosa Parks
What movement started in 2013 to protest police brutality against Black Americans?
Hint: raise ur right fist
Black Lives Matter
What Supreme Court case legalized racial segregation in 1896?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What important law in 1964 made segregation in public places illegal?
What type of discrimination involves unfair treatment based on gender?
Sexism
Who was the first Black president of South Africa after Apartheid?
Nelson Mandela
What does the term “microaggression” refer to?
subtle, indirect racial insults
What was the name of the forced relocation and imprisonment of Japanese Americans during WWII?
Japanese Internment Camps
What was the name of the group of nine students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957?
Little Rock Nine
What term refers to unfair treatment based on age?
Ageism
Who co-founded the NAACP and was a leader in racial justice movements?(NAACP= national association for the advancement of colored people)
W.E.B. Du Bois
What is Racial Profiling?
targeting people based on race rather than behavior
What was the system where Africans were taken by force to America and sold as slaves?
Transatlantic Slave Trade
What year did the Voting Rights Act get passed, protecting Black Americans’ right to vote?
1965
What is discrimination against people with disabilities called?
Ableism
What young girl was the first to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans?
Ruby Bridges
What is the term for privilege given to people based on their race, often unconsciously?
White Privledge
What laws enforced racial segregation in South Africa until the 1990s?
Apartheid
What protest involved college students sitting at segregated lunch counters in the 1960s?
What is the term for discrimination against people based on their cultural background or nationality?
Xenophobia
Who was the activist and journalist that led an anti-lynching campaign in the late 1800s? (Anti-lynching= mass genocide of specifically Black Americans)
Ida B. Wells
What do you call policies and actions that work to fix unfair treatment in society?
Racial Equity