Segregation and Civil Rights Flashcard

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How did nonviolent protests impact the Civil Rights Movement?

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Nonviolent protests brought attention to the injustices faced by African Americans and helped to gain public support for the Civil Rights Movement.

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Outlawed racial discrimination in the workplace and in public places, including schools.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Separation of two or more races based on skin color

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segregation

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Enforced racial segregation in the South; all were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures after the Reconstruction period.

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Jim Crow Laws

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Gave all male United States citizens over the age of 21 the right to vote

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15th Amendment

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Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal to segregate schools.

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to segregate schools.

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Which president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law?

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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Which amendment gave women the right to vote? It's also called women's suffrage.

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19th Amendment

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These were journalists who wrote book and articles that exposed corruption in business and government:

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Muckrakers

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What was the name of the political machine in NYC in the 1800s?

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Tammany Hall