Racism and Civil Rights - C.Mitchell

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  1. 2. Union and labor leader - used nonviolent techniques to promote better working conditions for farm workers.
  2. 5. Elected in 1960 - youngest president ever elected - pushed for civil rights following the "Children's March" - assassinated in Dallas, TX.
  3. 6. of 1964 - college students traveled through the South trying
  4. 10. Nine students who integrated Central High in Little Rock, AR - state had to give in to federal law.
  5. 11. Rights Activist - preached separatism - assassinated in 1965 by the Nation of Islam.
  6. 17. by bus on to integrate interstate bus stations - fire-bombed in GA - later escorted by federal marshals.
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  8. 21. Supreme Court Case - overturned Plessy v. Ferguson - integrated public schools - conditions of black schools hindered educational opportunities for black students - set them up to fail in life.
  9. 22. m Summer"
  10. 23. Indian Movement - brought public attention to the recognition of tribal rights, violation of government treaties and overall improvement of Indian life on reservations.
  11. 24. Southern Christian Leadership Conference - King's southern civil rights organization.
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  1. 1. Republican who ran against JFK in 1960 Election - he lost!
  2. 3. LBJ's War on Poverty Programs - Medicare, Medicaid, Elementary/Secondary School Acts, and Environmental Acts
  3. 4. register blacks to vote.
  4. 5. Segregation Laws - legally allowed to keep whites and black socially separated.
  5. 7. Banned segregation in all public places.
  6. 8. Leader of the Civil Rights Movement - emerged following the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
  7. 9. Provided citizenship rights to African-Americans - equal in the "eyes of the law."
  8. 12. Supreme Court Case - established "separate but equal" - blacks and white may be separated socially as long as what is provided is equal in nature.
  9. 13. Peaceful demonstration asking for a result and refusing to move until goal is achieved.
  10. 14. In December of 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery. Sparked the use of civil disobedience to ignite the Civil Rights Movement.
  11. 15. United diverse groups to push for civil rights in August 1963.
  12. 16. The refusal of the African-American community to ride public buses - held out fo - held out for 381 days peacefully and it resulted in the integration of public buses.
  13. 18. Civil Rights Activist - preached separatism - assassinated in 1965 by the Nation of Islam.
  14. 19. Wrote the "Feminine Mystique" - acknowledging the role of women outside of the domestic role.