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Civil Rights -the peoples' rights
-Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) became one of the leading activist organizations in the early years of the American Civil Rights Movement -
the colar: line is a bearer that separate whites from nonwites
-Jackie Robinson and the dodgers break the color line
-Robinson took the field in 1947 -
Segregation-separation by their race
-President Truman signs this Executive Order
-ending segregation in the military -
Thurgood Marshall
-The court said that this was unconstitutional
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Boycott & Rosa Parks-On a cold December evening in 1955, ROSA PARKS quietly incited a revolution by just sitting down.
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Little Rock Nine-The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957
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Jim Crow Laws & Sit-ins-It was standard policy in the South that lunch counters were reserved for whites only. The actions of these four students were part of a growing movement among African Americans to demand an end to Jim Crow laws. ... Soon, sit-ins spread to Virginia, Tennessee and eventually all southern states
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Civil disobedience-the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest.
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SCLC-In the early 1960s, Birmingham, Alabama, was a steel-mill town with a long history of bigotry. Martin Luther King Jr. called it the most segregated city in the country. As a result, the SCLC decided to focus its attention there in 1963
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NAACP- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is what it stands for
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Plessy v. Ferguson- 163 US 537 (1896) was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
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Nation of Islam, Malcom X-As Malcolm X led a mass rally in Harlem on February 21, 1965, rival Black Muslims gunned him down.
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Disenfranchise-deprive (someone) of the right to vote
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Black power, SNCC- a group founded in 1966 that demanded economic and political rights and was prepared to take violent action
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Kerner Commission, ghettos-The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission after its chair, Governor Otto Kerner, Jr. of Illinois, was an 11-member commission established by President Lyndon B. Johnson in Executive Order 11365 to investigate the causes of the 1967 race riots in the United States
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discrimination-the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things
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desegregation-the ending of a policy of racial segregation.
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Voter-Registration Drive-A voter registration drive is an effort undertaken by government authorities as well as political parties and other entities to register to vote all persons otherwise entitled to vote. In many countries the functions of electoral authorities includes endeavours to get as many people to register to vote as possible.
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Affirmative action-an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination.
