Transcript Civil Rights TEST PREP - Broken Arrow Public Schools

Civil Rights TEST PREP
TEST 3/31/10
Court Cases
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Ks.
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Hernandez v. Texas
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Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.
Separate but equal are not constitutional.
Thurgood Marshall plead case
First civil rights ruling from High court for Hispanics
NAACP – challenged segregation in court
Civil Rights Protests
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Birmingham Protest
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Police ordered dogs and fire hoses to disrupt
marchers.
Boycotting busses for more than a year.
Freedom Ride
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Bus trip staged by CORE to defy
segregationist codes
Why did Martin Luther King target
Birmingham, Alabama for a civil
rights campaign?
Because it was the only southern city that
practiced segregation
 Because Pres. Kennedy had been born
there.
 Because it was the most segregated city in
the South
 Because of its strong support for civil
rights.
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Lttle Rock 9: Eisenhower sent federal troops to
Little Rock Arkansas to protect student
Rioting occurred at the University of Mississippi
when James Meredith enrolled.
Thurgood Marshall was the attorney that plead
Brown v Board and later became a Supreme
Court justice.
Brown v Board overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
Radical Movement
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Term coined by Stokely Carmichael
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“Black Power”
Best known African American Radical
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Malcolm X
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While in Prison converted to Nation of Islam
Black Panthers believe African Americans would
become “free” when they gained full control of
their community institutions.
Which of these African Americans
is famous for breaking into major
league baseball?
Jackie Robinson
 Ralph Abernathy
 Thurgood Marshall
 Rosa Parks
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Women’s Liberation Movement
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60’s/70’s women's movement spurred was on by
Civil Rights Movement
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Betty Friedan- wrote the Feminine Mystique
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NOW- National Organization for Women
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Full social, economic and political equality for men
and women
Roe v. Wade – ruled that abortions were legal.
Phyllis Schlafly worked to stop the
ratification of the ERA
 The modern day women’s movement
caused the number of women in the
workforce to double between 1950 and
2000.
 Supporters of the ERA believed it would
protect women in the work place.
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Chicano Movement
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Cesar Chavez- latino leader who
organized worker strikes and boycotts
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Migrant farm workers move from place to
place following the harvest or planting
schedules.
AIM
Wounded Knee was the site of a violent
confrontation between AIM members and
federal forces resulting in the government
agreeing to revisit Native American issues
 Goal of the American Indian Movement
was for tribes to gain greater control over
reservation resources and issues.
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