Unit 10 Vocabulary REVIEW

A preoccupation with the purchasing of material goods.

• GI Bill

• NAACP

• Consumerism

• Education Improvement Act

A law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II.

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Elmore v. Rice

• GI Bill

• Briggs v. Elliot

passed in 1984, this law worked to improve education through higher accountability for teachers and students

• Septima Clark

• Education Improvement Act

• Elmore v. Rice

• Modjeska Simkins

organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights for African Americans.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Orangeburg Massacre

• NAACP

• Friendship Nine

Supreme Court case making laws that restricted African-Americans from voting in primary elections unconstitutional

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Briggs v. Elliot

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Elmore v. Rice

South Carolina Supreme Court case that dealt with segregation in the public school system.

• Briggs v. Elliot

• Elmore v. Rice

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

1954 case that overturned Separate but Equal standard of discrimination in education.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Elmore v. Rice

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Briggs v. Elliot

Group arrested for a sit-in, their"jail, no bail" strategy became a national trend

• Friendship Nine

• Orangeburg

  Massacre

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

a massacre of black students outside a segregated bowling alley at South Carolina State College.

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Orangeburg Massacre

• Friendship Nine

• Briggs v. Elliot

He was an American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United States Senator. He also ran for the presidency of the United States in 1948

• Septima Clark

• Modjeska Simkins

• Strom Thurmond

• GI Bill