Civil rights

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  1. 4. v. Ferguson/Homer Plessy sat in the white section of the railroad car to confront segregation laws.
  2. 6. Renaissance/A period in the 1920s when Af Ams achievements in Art, music, and literature flourished. Important image of Af Am in the US gave black communities pride in their own establishments.
  3. 7. Rights Act of 1964/A landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women.
  4. 10. Murdering/a person without due process. 3445 Af Am were lynched since 1882, when records started being kept. It was a public affair, handled by a mob of people.
  5. 12. Amendment/Officially abolished slavery in the US important because a new era in US history.
  6. 15. intermixing of people or groups previously segregated.
  7. 17. Resistance/The practice of achieving political goals through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, and other methods, and without using violence, primary strategy in the civil rights movement.
  8. 18. because it gave African Americans the legal right to vote, despite southern restrictions.
  9. 19. Amendment/Gives ALL citizens the right to vote (except women)
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  1. 1. Till/1955 a 14 year old black boy said "Bye, Baby" to a white woman in Mississippi. In response, he was brutally murdered.
  2. 2. Panthers: In October of 1966, in Oakland California, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded this party for Self-Defense.
  3. 3. prejudice that members of one race are superior to members of other races.
  4. 5. form of civil disobedience that involves one or more persons nonviolently occupying an area to promote political or social change; primary action used in the civil rights movement.
  5. 8. separate, to keep races or ethnic groups apart.
  6. 9. little Rock Crisis/the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus
  7. 11. Bus Boycott/NAACP organized over night. It started the following Monday where all blacks refused to ride the buses. This act was to try to end segregation on buses.
  8. 12. Amendment/Requires states to give all citizens due process to EVERYONE.Important because the states must protect rights of the citizens.
  9. 13. Rights Act Of 1965/ A landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S.
  10. 14. v. Board of Education/A landmark supreme court case that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. Overturned the 1896 Plessy decision.
  11. 16. Crow/The systematic practice of discriminating against and segregating Black people in the south.