History of the Civil Right Movement

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  1. 1. vs reed A landmark decision of the US Supreme Court ruling that the administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes
  2. 5. vs virginia The Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  3. 7. amendment Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized In the United States
  4. 9. An African American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement
  5. 10. vs boe A landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional
  6. 12. vs browder A case heard before a three-judge panel of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama on Montgomery and Alabama state bus segregation laws
  7. 15. vs charlotte The Supreme Court of the United States unanimously upheld busing programs that aimed to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States
  8. 17. amendment Abolished slavery
  9. 19. vs sidoti A mother challenging a state court order divesting her of custody of her child contended that, contrary to the trial court's findings, it was not in her pre-school child's best interests to be removed from her custody, while the father alleged that the child would be damaged by being raised in a racially mixed household
  10. 21. vs bakke The Court's decision to upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy
  11. 22. integration The practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to be inclusive to members of minority groups
  12. 23. disobedience The refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest
  13. 24. marshall An African American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
  14. 25. Protection Clause Requires states to practice equal protection
  15. 26. robinson The first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era
  16. 27. parks An American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott
  17. 29. vs ferguson Legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court, on May 18, 1896, by a seven-to-one majority (one justice did not participate), advanced the controversial “separate but equal” doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws
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  1. 2. vs baltimore A per curiam order by the Supreme Court of the United States affirming an order by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that enjoined racial segregation in public beaches and bathhouses
  2. 3. clause Gives Congress the power “to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian
  3. 4. ins A form of protest in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met
  4. 6. vs orr United States Supreme Court case that held that a statutory scheme in Alabama that imposed alimony obligations on husbands but not on wives was an unconstitutional equal protection violation
  5. 8. vs holmes A United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ordered immediate desegregation of public schools in the American South
  6. 11. A civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans
  7. 13. from birmingham jail A letter that Martin Luther King, Jr., addressed to his fellow clergymen while he was in jail in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, after a nonviolent protest against racial segregation
  8. 14. amendment Everyone including African Americans can vote
  9. 15. The principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s
  10. 16. crow laws State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
  11. 18. bus boycott A political and a social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama
  12. 20. x An African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement
  13. 28. An African American civil rights organization that is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr.