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Title: Civil Rights Vocabulary


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Civil Rights Vocabulary
  • Prejudice irrational suspicion or hatred of a
    particular group, race, or religion (holding
    unreasonable preconceived judgments or
    convicts) THOUGHT
  • Discrimination treatment or consideration based
    on class or category rather than individual
    merit to act on prejudice ACTION
  • Segregation separate by race
  • de facto segregation that exists by practice
    and custom ex) white flight after WWII
  • de jure segregation by law
  • ex) Jim Crow laws
  • Integration to open to people of all races or
    ethnic groups without restriction desegregate

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Civil Rights Vocabulary (cont)
  • Jim Crow discrimination against blacks
    especially by legal enforcement or traditional
    sanctions
  • Black Codes laws passed by the Southern states
    after the Civil War to regain control over freed
    slaves, maintain white supremacy, and ensure the
    continued supply of free labor.
  • Oppression unjust or cruel exercise of power or
    authority to weigh down
  • Emancipation the act of setting a person free
    from any type of restraint or servitude,
    particularly slavery

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Civil Rights Vocabulary (cont)
  • Civil disobedience the act of intentionally
    breaking a law that one thinks is wrong or
    refusing to obey a governmental order,
    particularly if one publicizes the act of civil
    disobedience with the purpose of changing that
    law or order. Nonviolent protest
  • Pacifism opposition to war or violence as a
    means of settling disputes
  • Bigotry/Bigot one who regards or treats members
    of a group with hatred and intolerance
  • Racism a belief that some races are by the
    nature superior to others discrimination based
    on such a belief
  • Stereotype an idea that many people have about
    a thing or group and that may often be untrue or
    only partly true applying that idea to
    individuals as well as the group

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13th Amendment
  • Jan. 31, 1865 (proposed)
  • Dec. 18, 1865 (ratified)
  • 13th amendment
  • Made slavery illegal throughout the US

5
Freedmans Bureau
  • 1865
  • Freedmans Bureau
  • provide relief for all poor peopleblack
  • white in the South

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14th Amendment
  • 1866 (proposed) July 28, 1868 (ratified)
  • All people born or naturalized in the US are
    citizens.
  • Citizens guaranteed equal protection under the
    law
  • States could not deprive any person of life,
    liberty, or property, without due process of
    law.
  • Banned former Confederate officials from holding
    state or federal offices.
  • State laws are subject to review by federal
    courts.
  • Congress has power to pass any laws needed to
    enforce any part of amendment.

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15th Amendment
  • Proposed Feb. 1869/ Ratified March 1870
  • gave African American men in US the right to vote

8
Civil Rights Act of 1875
  • Civil Rights Act of 1875
  • (later declared unconstitutional)
  • guaranteed African Americans equal rights in
    public places like theaters public
    transportation

9
Tuskegee Institute
  • 1881
  • Tuskegee Institute
  • founded by Booker T. Washington
  • to develop African American businesses
  • economic power social change

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Ida B. Wells
  • late 1890s
  • Ida B. Wells (-Barnett)
  • A Red Record3 yr. listing of the lynchings of
    blacksnamed the lynchers

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Plessy v. Ferguson
  • 1896
  • Declared that segregation was allowed if
    separate but equal facilities were provided for
    African Americans.

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NAACP
  • 1909
  • National Association for the Advancement of
    Colored People
  • Civil Rights organization formed by W.E.B. DuBois
  • and others to fight discrimination and
    segregation
  • Usually used the courts/justice system to work
    for change

13
UNIA
  • 1914
  • UNIAUniversal Negro Improvement Association
  • Founded by Marcus Garvey to promote
  • racial pride and unity urged blacks to
  • become economically independent

14
Great Migration
  • During the 1920s, hundreds of thousands of black
    southerners began moving to the North to escape
    racial prejudice
  • Faced opposition from whites concerned about job
    losses
  • 25 urban race riots during the 1920s in the North

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Harlem Renaissance
  • 1920s (after The Great Migration)
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • An important period of African American artistic
    growth
  • Countee Cullen-- poet
  • Zora Neal Hurston-- author
  • Paul Robeson singer/actor

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African Americans in the Military
  • 54th Massachusetts Regiment 1st all black
    fighting regiment (Civil War, Fort Wagner,
    movieGlory)
  • Buffalo Soldiers built forts and maintained
    order in the Southwest US and Great Plains also
    fought in Spanish-American War (San Juan Hill)
    with Gen. Pershing against Pancho Villa
  • Tuskegee Airmen 1st all black military aviation
    program (movieRed Tails)

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Committee on Civil Rights
  • created by President Truman
  • Findings recommendations
  • racial discrimination throughout nation should
    have new laws to protect all voters,
    desegregation of armed forces, permanent Fair
    Employment Practices Commission
  • Trumans 1948 actions
  • ended segregation in military banned racial
    discrimination in hiring of federal employees

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Sweatt v. Painter
  • (state) law schools must admit black applicants
    who qualify even if a black law school exists

21
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka, KN
  • May 17, 1954
  • major landmark Supreme Court case in which racial
    segregation was unconstitutional

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Murder of Emmett Till
  • 14 year old boy from Chicago, visiting relatives
    in Mississippi
  • Said Bye Baby or wolf whistled at a white woman
  • Kidnapped by womans husband brother-in-law
  • Tills mother had an open casket funeral so
    people could see the brutality
  • Jet magazine published picture of corpse (role of
    media)
  • 5 day trial l hour jury deliberations not
    guilty verdict

23
Rosa Parks and Montgomery Bus Boycott
  • December 1, 1955
  • Parks refused to give up her seat to a white
    passenger and was arrested.
  • Black leaders organized a boycott of the
    Montgomery Bus System

24
The Little Rock Nine at Central High School
Little Rock, Arkansas
  • 1957
  • 9 black students selected to integrate Central
    HS Gov. Orval Faubus used
  • National Guard to prevent students from starting
    school Pres. Eisenhower sent in federal troops
    to force desegregation
  • Ernest Green1st African American to graduate
    from Central HS
  • Little Rock schools closed the next year rather
    than integrate

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SCLCSouthern Christian Leadership Conference
  • 1957
  • Founded by Martin Luther King, Jr. and 60 other
    ministers to coordinate non-violent protests

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Feb. 1, 1960 Sit-Ins (Greensboro, NC)
  • 4 black NC AT students sit down at an all whites
    lunch counter and were refused service returned
    the next day with even more African American
    students this triggers many other similar
    non-violent protests in the South
  • Led to the formation of SNCCStudent Non-violent
    Coordinating Committee in Raleigh, NC

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CORECongress of Racial Equality
  • May 4, 1961
  • began a series of Freedom Rides to protest
    segregation on buses and in southern bus
    stations

28
1962 James Meredith
  • won federal court case that allowed him to
    (enroll) attend the all white University of
    Mississippi (Ole Missnamed after what they use
    to call the mistress of the plantation)
  • caused riots and he was shot
  • he did graduate

29
April 1963 Martin Luther King Jr.s Letter from
Birmingham Jail
  • King is jailed in Birmingham, Alabama for
    participation in a series of protest marches
  • May 1963 protests continued and Police
    Commissioner Eugene Bull Connor used attack
    dogs and fire hoses on protestors including
    children seen on national TV, this outraged many
    and raised awareness of the struggle for Civil
    Rights
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Medgar Evers
  • June 12, 1963
  • NAACP field secretary murdered outside of his
    home in Jackson, Mississippi Byron De La
    Beckwith is tried twice for murder, both trials
    ending in hung jurieshe is finally convicted in
    1994

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March on Washington
  • August 28, 1963
  • 250,000 people on the Mall in front of Lincoln
    Memorial for Civil Rights MLK gave his now
    famous I Have a Dream speech

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Sept. 15, 1963
  • 4 little girls killed at Sixteenth Street Baptist
    Church
  • Birmingham, Alabama
  • A bomb explodes at African American church, known
    as a popular Civil Rights meeting place, killing
    the girls while they were attending Sunday
    school.
  •  

33
Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • July 2, 1964
  • banned segregation in public places such as
    restaurants and transportation facilities also
    prohibited discrimination by employers, unions,
    or universities with federal contracts/money

34
Summer 1964 Freedom Summer
  • white college students traveled to Mississippi to
    help African Americans register to vote

35
Aug. 5, 1964
  • missing Civil Rights workers found murdered
  • names James Chaney (Af. Am.) 2 whites--Andrew
    Goodman and Michael Schwerner
  • Situation the 3 went to Mississippi to register
  • African Americans to vote

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Assassination of Malcolm X Feb. 21, 1965
  • He had been a leader of the Nation of Islam,
    which favored black separatismsocial and
    economic independence in the beginning did not
    discourage violenceby any means necessary
  • left Nation of Islam and was reconsidering his
    ideas of integration when he was shot by three
  • members of the Nation of Islam in New York
    City

37
March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama
March 7, 1965
  • voter registration march organized by MLK

38
Voting Rights Act of 1965 Aug. 10, 1965
  • gave federal government the power to inspect
    voter registration procedures and protect all
    citizens voting rights (final ban on literacy
    tests, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, etc.)

39
Watts Riots August 18, 1965
  • riots in a neighborhood of Los Angeles
  • caused by anger over racism lead to riots in
    other parts of the country

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Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in
Memphis, Tennessee
  • April 4, 1968
  • James Earl Ray was convicted for shooting Dr.
    King on the balcony of a Memphis hotel
  • His death caused riots in more than 100 US cities

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Civil Rights Act of 1968
  • Prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and
  • financing of housing
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