Topic 16 Civil Rights/JFK/LBJ

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Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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Court case that ruled that segregated schools are inherently unequal, ending the separate but equal doctrine.

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Brown v. Board of Education

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Eliminated Poll Taxes in Federal Elections.

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24th Amendment

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Eliminated literacy tests and poll taxes in all elections.

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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Effort to desegregate interstate transportation by integrated passengers riding buses from the north to the south.

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Freedom Rides

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Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation.

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Sit-In

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Group working for Civil Rights that promoted "Black Power"

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Black Panthers

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Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?

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Rosa Parks

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Appealing to many African Americans' anger and frustration over a lack of social and economic power, ______ predicted a militant approach to civil rights.

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Malcolm X

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First African American to attend the University of Mississippi and was shot in his one man march against fear

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James Meredith