Civil Rights and Segregation Flashcards

Flashcards on Civil Rights and Segregation

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Successful defeat of town's segregation via year of economic withdrawal

Birth of a Nation

1955 triple K propaganda film that inspired the Tulsa race massacre

Hayes-Tilden Compromise

Compromise of northern presidency for southern segregation via the removal of union reconstruction troops

Black Wall Street

Very successful black section of Tulsa Oklahoma, destroyed by segregationists

Plessy Vs. Furguson

Supreme court case approving segregation

*Sates Rights

Nullification of federal civil rights by claiming federalist state power.

Race Neutral

Use of racial appeals to gain political power

14th Amendment

Amendment requires equal citizenship as a birthright

Brown Vs. Board

Supreme Court Case that ended segregation

NAACP

Multiracial civil rights Organization created in opposition to segregation and black voter suppression

Compensation emancipation

Federal government payment to enslavers for ending slavery

13th Amendment

Amendment bans slavery except for just incarceration

Sundown Laws

Segregation laws that impose a curfew that black people have to leave town by sundown

15th Amendment

Amendment protects all citizen's right to vote

Convict Leasing

South's creation of felony crimes for petty vagrancy in order to get free labor from prisoners

Black reconstruction

Twelve years of federally protected black citizenship programs after the civil war.

Segregation Academies

All white southern schools created to skirt desegregation

Southern Strategies

South's legal use of economic and other innocent language with racial effects

Atlanta compromise

Compromise by Booker T Washington sought black economic rights in exchange for allowing political vote suppression and social segregation.

Green Book

Venue and accommodation guide used to keep black people safe while traveling