Am. History Chapter 27

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James Meredith

African American who enrolled at Ole Miss

Kennedy Administration

Agreed not to stop the arrest of Mississippi activists in return for the desegregation of interstate transportation

Kerner Commission

Attempted to determine the causes of the 1967 riots

Voting Rights Act

Banned literacy tests for voter registration

Brown V. Board of Education

Case that overturned Plessy V. Ferguson

Montgomery, AL

Considered the most segregated city in the South

Hernandez V. Texas

Extended 14th Amendment protections to Mexican Americans

Jackie Robinson

Famous for breaking into the MLB

Why did King go to Memphis in 1968?

He went to offer assistance to sanitation workers who were striking for better wages and working conditions

Where were the volunteers' bodies found?

In an earthen dam

What gains did the civil rights movement make by the early 1970's?

It eliminated de jure segregation and broke the barriers to African American voting and political participation. Poverty rates fell and income rose, along with graduates

Selma, AL

MLK Jr. and the SCLC organized a major campaign to enact voting rights; there were a series of confrontations on the Edmund Pettus Bridge; "Bloody Sunday"

What impact did Malcom X have on the civil rights movement?

Many African Americans considered themselves as heirs of Malcom X; they moved away from the principle of nonviolence

Freedom Summer

Massive 1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi

Thurgood Marshall

NAACP attorney who led a legal challenge against segregation

De jure segregation

Racial separation imposed by law

Malcom X

Radical African American activist killed in 1965

President Johnson

Signed the Civil Rights Acts if 1964

Black Power

Term first used by SNCC leader Stokley Carmichael

Nation of Islam

While in prison, Malcom X converted to this

Medgar Evers

desegregation of University of Mississippi


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