2025-26 US History Unit 6 - Civil Rights Basics - Part 1

This forced black people to accept a lesser social status and altered their behavior

• Segregation

• Economics

• Social Media

• Mainstream Media

This court case made segregation legal in the US; said "separate but equal" was acceptable

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Brown v Board of Education

• Heart of Atlanta Motel v US

• Loving v Virginia

This type of segregation was established by practice and custom; NOT the law It was widespread over most of the country; Common in northern cities

• De Facto Segregation

• De Jure Segregation

• De Sales Segregation

• De Xavier Segregation

This type of segregation was made legal through the law; Common in the South

• De Facto Segregation

• De Jure Segregation

• De Sales Segregation

• De Xavier Segregation

This is the term for interracial marriage; was illegal in 11 southern states

• Miscegenation

• Miscarriage

• Mistefication

• Misogyny

What were 3 ways that minorities were denied voting rights/disenfranchised?

• Poll Taxes

• Literacy Tests

• White Primaries

• Grandfather Clause

This was the conservative political party in the South that dominated politics after the civil war through the 1960's; they excluded minorities from membership - fought for segregation and white supremacy

• Democrats

• Republicans

• Whigs

• Federalists

This allowed more discrimination against black voters by drawing the lines of their voting district to make it so they could never get a majority

• Gerrymandering

• Salamandering

• Garymandering

• Salmandering

This person broke the "color barrier" where only whites could play in MLB in 1947 by being the 1st Af-Am to play with the Dodgers

• Jackie Robinson

• Larry Doby

• Roberto Clemente

• Sammy Sosa

This person ended segregation in the military in 1948

• Harry Truman

• FDR

• JFK

• Dwight Eisenhower