Segregation Vocab

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In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court unanimously struck down segregation in schooling as an unconstitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. What is the case?

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Brown v.Board of Education of Topeka

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As she stared out the window, the bus driver said, “If you don’t stand up, I’m going to call the police and have you arrested.” The soft-spoken woman replied, “You may do that.” Who is the woman?

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Rosa Parks

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Who is known for the statement about gaining justice on buses and addressing oppression: "There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. . . . I want it to be known—that we’re going to work with grim and bold determination—to gain justice on buses in this city. And we are not wrong. . . . If we are wrong—the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. If we are wrong—God Almighty is wrong. . . . If we are wrong—justice is a lie."

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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What was the initiative where thousands of student volunteers, mostly white and about one-third female, went into Mississippi to help register voters, and for some, the job proved deadly?

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Freedom Summer

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Can only be changed by changing people way of thinking. Exists by custom and practice

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de facto segregation

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In the later years of his life, he urged African Americans to identify with Africa and to work with world organizations and even progressive whites to attain equality.

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Malcom X

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“call for black people to begin to define their own goals . . . [and] to lead their own organizations.”

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Black Power