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Brown v Board Of Education
Overturned plessy v Ferguson, overturned seperat but equal in education
13th amendment
Abolished slavery
14th amendment
Equal protection under the law
15th amendment
Right to vote
Civil Rights act of 1866
Added equal rights in contracts and employment economic improvement
Kkk
Terror group
1877
Corrupt deal, withdraw of federal troops (hays in office) — end to reconstruction
Sharecropping
Semi slavery, blacks farmed the land but whites made the profit
Lynching
Murder of black men and children by mobs
Poll taxes
Had to pay to vote
Literacy tests
Meant to keep illiterate (blacks) from voting
Grandfather clause
Could only vote if grandfather had been able to vote (excluded blacks)
The lost year
Virginia closed schools for a while as result of integration — part of mass resistance
Montgomery Bus boycott
One of the first major widespread protests against segregation
Grass roots movement
Freedom Rides
Meant to put pressure onto government in order to make them take federal action against segregation
Mixed groups of whites and blacks traveling across the nation
Faced violence
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commity (SNCC)
Youth led org. to coordinate local movements
NAACP
Interracial endeavor to end segregation
Malcom x
Advocated for separate black state through violence
Nation of Islam
Reinforced black power philosophies, advocated for militarism
Massive Resistance
policy adopted by Virginia state gov to block desegregation of schools by cutting off state funds and closing public schools
White Citizens’ council
White supremacist, wanted to socially and economically oppress blacks
Little Rock
Attempt to desegregate school by 9 black students
Faced mobs and resistance
SCLC
Created by MLK JR to help unite local groups and sustain Montgomery bus boycotts
Southern Manifesto
Opposed the Brown v. Board ruling ad encouraged white southerners to openly defy the court rulings
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