Karteikarten
Chapter 17 vocab flashcard
Karten in diesem Stapel (15)
- 1Segregationration of people of different races
- 2Integrationmixing of blacks and whites in housing, schools, & other public facilities.
- 3Ghettoa section of a city in which members of a minority group lived because of social legal or economic pressures - often contained rundown housing
- 4Civil Disobidiencenonviolent protests against unjust laws - boycotts, sit-ins & marches used by Martin Luther King to gain civil rights and end de facto segregation
- 5Plessy Vs. Ferguson1896 Supreme Court ruling that segregated “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites was constitutional
- 6Sweatt vs. Painter1950 Supreme Court ruling requiring state schools to provide facilities for blacks substantially equal to those provided for white students
- 7Brown vs. Board of Education1954 Supreme Court ruling reversing the policy of segregation, declaring that “separate could never be equal” and a year later ordered the integration of all public schools “with all deliberate speed” - society became less racist
- 8Martin Luther King’s Method of Gaining Civil Rightsled the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the 1960’s with nonviolent disobedience such as boycotts, sit-ins, “freedom rides”, & marches to bring about integration & civil rights
- 9Malcolm X’s Method of Gaining Civil Rightsbelieved that African Americans could only succeed if they separated from white society
- 10Civil Rights Act of 1964passed by Congress to protect the right of all citizens to vote, outlawed discrimination in hiring and ended segregation in public places
- 11Voting Rights Act 1965passed by Congress to end literacy tests which were often given in the South to keep blacks from voting and allowed federal regulation of voter registration in states where local officials practiced discrimination
- 1213th ammendmentgranted African Americans freedom from slavery
- 1314th ammendmentgranted African Americans citizenship
- 1415th ammendmentGranted African Americans the right to vote
- 1524th ammendmentAbolished poll taxes in national elections