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1
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Said “No such thing as separate but equal”.

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John Marshall Harlan

2
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News paper publisher who campaigned to make lynching a federal crime.

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Ida Wells-Barnett

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Believed the first thing is for black men to learn trade, get a good job, support their families, and then worry about civil rights.

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Booker T. Washington

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First black person to get an advanced degree from Harvard. Believed that civil rights should come first. Leader of NAACP

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W.E.B. DuBois

5
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States right candidate for president 1948.

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Thomas E. Dewey

6
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Republican running for president in 1948.

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Strom Thurmond

7
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First black Major League Baseball Player

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Jackie Robinson

8
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14 year old beaten and shot to death because he was accused of flirting with a white woman.

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Emmett Till

9
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Arrested for sitting in a white seat and refusing to move

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Rosa Parks

10
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Leader of the bus boycott

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

11
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Governor of Arkansas who apposed the integration of a HS and personally blocked the door.

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Orval Faubus

12
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Black student who was enrolled at the U of Mississippi; he finds the Governor of Mississippi is waiting for him at the registrar office to convince him to not enroll

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James Meredith

13
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Three young men murdered who attempted to help black men vote in the south

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Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner

14
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Alleged assassin of Martin Luther King,Jr.

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James Earl Ray

15
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Leader of the anti- stop ERA

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Phyllis Schlafly

16
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Separation of the races

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Jim Crow*

17
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Racially motivated murder

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Lynching

18
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The belief that black men needed to learn to trade, get a good job support your family and the civil rights will come later

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Accommodationism

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Neighbor to neighbor allience to not sell homes to minorities in certain towns.

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Restrictive covenants

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A large number of movement of white European Americans out of the cities into the suburbs to avoid black people

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White flight

21
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Parking yourself at a lunch counter hoping to be served, knowing that you wont be.

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Sit-ins*

22
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People who took interracial buses in south

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Freedom Riders

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Freedom Summer

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women must receive equal opportunities in high school and college extra scholastic sports

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Title IX*

25
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Improving educational employment opportunities for women and interracial without using quota

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Affirmative action

26
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Bus boycott took place in 1956

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Montgomery

27
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Where a large group of white people and attacked black people on the bus

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Birmingham

28
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In Alabama where a march for voting rights it held extreme bloody violence attacks occur during this time

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Selma

29
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Terrible riot that occurred in LA, California

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Watts

30
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National Organization for Women

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stated goal: COMPLETE equality

31
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American Indian Movement

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A group of radical indian activist make a civil rights group often violent to authority

32
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Plessy v Ferguson

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Case goes to Supreme court and it rules that separate facilities for white and black are constitutional as long as they are of equal quality “Separate but equal”

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Brown v Board of Education

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filed a lawsuit against the school bc of race and the supreme court overturned plessy and public schools must be desegregated with deliberate speed.

34
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Methods used by southern states to prevent their black citizens voting (3)

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  1. Literacy tests
  2. Poll tax
  3. Grandfather clause
35
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Method used to integrate the U.S. military

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executive order

36
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Provisions of Truman’s civil rights program (3)

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  1. Make lynching a federal crime
  2. Civil rights devision justice department
  3. Anti- Discrimination Employment, Housing, Public Accommodations
37
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Original purpose of public housing

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Low cost housing for middle class families that were saving up for a home

38
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Goals of the government’s “termination” policy (3)

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  1. reservation will be abolished
  2. liquidate tribal assets
  3. eliminate all gov programs /benefits administered by BIA (bureau of indian affairs)
39
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Provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 (3)

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  1. Becomes a federal crime to prevent qualified persons from voting
    2.
40
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Provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (3)

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  1. Prohibits job discrimination
  2. prohibits racial discrimination
    3.
41
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Function of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

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To provide for federal oversight of elections in the south and certain areas of the North