The Civil Rights Movement

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The Civil Rights Movement

• 1950-1990

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Civil Rights Movement

• Jackie Robinson
• Plessey v. Ferguson
• Brown v. The Board of Education
• Thurmond Marshall
• NAACP
• Rosa Parks
• Dr. Martin Luther King
• March on Washington
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957
• 24th Amendment

• Sit-ins and Freedom Rides in the South, 1960-61
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• 26th Amendment
• Affirmative Action 1965
• Black Power
• Malcolm X
• Womans Liberation Movement
• Betty Friedam
• Cesar Chavez

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Movement for Equality

• Jackie Robinson- became the first
  African-American baseball player to cross the
  color line and join the major leagues.

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Plessey v. Ferguson

• Was a landmark United States Supreme Court
  decision approving racial segregation in in
  public facilities, ruling that states could
  prohibit the uses of public facilities by African
  American.

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Jim Crow Laws

• Were a series of laws mostly in the Southern
  United States that restricted most rights of
  African American granted after the Civil War. The
  laws required black and white people to use
  separate water fountains, public schools, public
  bath houses, restaurants, public libraries, and
  rail cars in public transport.

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National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People

• NAACP is one of the oldest and most influential
  civil rights organizations n the United States.

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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas

• Was a landmark case of the US Supreme Court
  (1954) which outlawed de jure racial segregation
  of public education facilities, ruling that
  separate but equal in public education could
  never provide black American with equal education
  available to white Americans. Brown not only
  overturned the case Plessey v. Ferguson but also
  provided the legal foundation of the Civil
  Rights Movement of the 1960s.

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Racial Segregation

• Is characterized by forced separation of people
  of different races in daily life when both are
  doing equal tasks, such as eating in a
  restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using
  a restroom, attending school, going to the
  movies, or in the rental or purchase of a home.
  Segregation may be de jure ( Latin, meaning by
  law)-mandated by law-or de facto (also Latin,
  meaning in fact) A de facto may range by
  racial discrimination in hiring and in the rental
  and sale of housing to vigilante violence such as
  lynching.

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Southern Manifesto

• Was a document written in 1956 to opposed racial
  integration in public places. The document was
  drawn up to counter Brown, which integrated
  public places.

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Was a political protest campaign started in 1955
  in Montgomery, Alabama intended to oppose the
  citys policy of racial segregation on its public
  transit system. After a year of boycott, the
  Supreme Court declared illegal the Alabama laws

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• Is a civil rights organization founded in 1957.
  It was headed by Martin Luther King Jr. The
  organization focused on non-violent civil
  disobedience and believed that it could use that
  to gain the civil right that African American
  lacked in the time. Prominent members of the
  organization included the Revered Al Sharpton,
  Jesse Jackson and Andrew Young.

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Freedom Riders

• Were a group of men and women from many different
  backgrounds and races who boarded buses, planes
  and trains and headed to the deep South to test
  the 1960 US Supreme Court ruling outlawing racial
  segregation in all public facilities. African
  American who disobeyed the states segregation
  laws were arrested and fined.

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Selma to Montgomery Marches

• Were marches that marked the political and
  emotional peak of the American civil rights
  movement. The marches were made for voting
  rights. In 1965, 600 civil rights marchers were
  attacked by state and local police with billy
  clubs and tear gas.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Outlawing discrimination based on race, color,
  religion, sex or national origin. It prohibited
  discrimination in public facilities, in
  government, and in employment. The Jim Crow laws
  in the South were abolished, and it was illegal
  to segregation of the races in schools, housing,
  or hiring.

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Outlawed the requirement that would be voters in
  the US take literacy test to qualify to register
  to vote, and it provided for federal registration
  of voters, instead of state or local registration.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

• Was a Minster and American political activist who
  was the most famous leader of the American civil
  rights movement. King won the Nobel Peace Prize
  before being assassinated in 1968. His fought
  for racial equality and believed in non-violence.

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Watts Riots

• Was a large scale civil disorder lasting six days
  in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. The
  riots began when a CHP officer stopped Marquette
  Frye for diving erratically. Fryes mother
  arrived on the scene, a struggle started, someone
  threw a bottle that hit the police car. Frye and
  his mother were arrested, soon after police left,
  rioting began.

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Black Power

• Is a political slogan which describes the
  aspiration of black self-determination. It calls
  for black to identify their struggle and work to
  help themselves

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Malcolm X

• Born Malcolm Little, was a longtime member for
  the Nation of Islam. Malcolm X advocated black
  pride, economic self-reliance, and identity
  politics.

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Civil Rights Act of 1968

• Prohibited discrimination concerning the sale,
  rental, and financing of housing based on race,
  religion, national origin, sex, handicap, and
  family status. It also provided protection for
  civil rights workers.

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Affirmative Action

• Or positive discrimination is a policy promoting
  various groups of people that have traditionally
  been discriminated against, with aim of creating
  a more equal society.

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Regents of University of California v. Bakke

• Allan Bakke, a white man twice applied for
  admission to the UC Medical School at Davis. He
  was rejected both times. The school had reserved
  sixteen places minorities as part of the
  universitys affirmative action program. Bakkes
  qualifications exceeded those of nay of the
  minority students admitted. Bakke contended that
  he was excluded from admission solely on his race.

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Cesar Chavez

• Was a Mexican-American farm worker, labor leader,
  and activist who founded the National Farm
  Workers Association, which later became the
  United Farm Workers

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Three Mile Island

• A U.S. nuclear power plant that on March 28th
  1979 suffered a partial core meltdown. The Three
  Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station sits on an
  island in Pennsylvania.

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22nd Amendment

• Lower the voting age to 18. Because of the
  Vietnam War

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Sit In

• A sit in or sit down is a from of direct action
  that involves one or more persons nonviolently
  occupying an area fro protest, often political,
  social, or economic change. Protesters seat
  themselves and remain seated until they are
  removed by force, or until their requests have
  been met.

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Betty Friedan

• Was am American feminists, social activist and
  writer. Books- The Feminine Mystique, and Life
  So Far.