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civil rights the equal rights for everyone no matter race or religion
Founded by a group of students
Was a nonviolent protest group -
Color line- is a barrier that separates whites and non whites
Jackie Robison and the Dodgers- break the color line
He took the field in 1947 -
segregation- grouping by race
President truman signs this executive order
Executive Order 9981- ends the armed forces segregation -
Thurgood Marshall He was the head NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
Made to beat segregation -
Boycott and rosa parks Boycott is not buying or using a service and rosa parks did not want to give up her seat
Blacks did not ride the bus until they changes the laws to were they did not have to give up there seat -
Little Rock nine - Was a group of students that made nonviolent actions
Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the “Little Rock Nine” into the school -
Civil Disobedience & SNCC Refusing to obey an unjust law & Student Nonviolent Coordinating Comity
They wanted to be fair along with everyone else
they broke the laws so they could prove a point -
Jim Crow Laws & Sit-In they were the laws that made the black be below whites
It was a nonviolent act for equal rights
The students wanted to be equal -
SCLC It is an african american civil rights group
they were having a lot of sit ins at the lunch counter and they were getting arrested for it
It was written by king when he was in jail -
Plessy v Ferguson a constitutional court case for equal rights
US band discrimination on race and all other aspects
was a large impact for everyone fighting for there rights -
NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Civil rights leaders to protest racial discrimination and to show support for major civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress. -
Kerner Commission & ghettos a part of a city, especially a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups
In the predominantly black Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles -
Black power is a political slogan and a name for various associated ideologies aimed at achieving self-determination for people of African descent
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desegregation the ending of a policy of racial segregation.
Court held that busing was an appropriate remedy for the problem of racial imbalance in schools -
Nation of Islam, Malcom X Black people of islamic decent
ideologies are unity and self-determination—that is, separation, or independence, from European society. -
Affirmative action an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination. use of racial "quotas" in its admissions process
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discrimination the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex
defines housing discrimination as the “refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, religion, or national origin
