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Mihir Ranjan (lvl 10)The _______ _______ ___ of 1965 removed barriers to black enfranchisement in the South, banning poll taxes, literacy test, and other measures that effectively prevented African Americans from voting
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The _______ _______ ___ of 1965 removed barriers to black enfranchisement in the South, banning poll taxes, literacy test, and other measures that effectively prevented African Americans from voting
Voting Rights Act
Linda Brown's father, Oliver Brown was encouraged by NAACP chief counsel ______________ ______________ to bring lawsuit against Topeka school district, which later became Brown v. Broad combined with four other cases.
Thurgood Marshall
the _____ ___________ ______ of 1968 was U.S. Federal legislation that protects individuals and families from discrimination in the sale, rental, financing, or advertising of housing
Fair Housing Act
____ ____ laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the South, all were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th century after Reconstruction era, leading to economic, educational social disadvantages for non-white people .
Jim Crow
The __________ __________ __________ __________ (SNCC), formed in 1960, focused on mobilizing local communities in nonviolent protests to expose injustice and demand federal action and promoted voter registration in the South.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
On December 1, 1955, _______ ________, a black seamstress, was arrested in Montgomery Alabama fro refusing to give up her bus seat so that white passengers could sit in
Rosa Parks
From 1895 to 1910 , The __________ Clause was used by seven Southern States to deny African Americans to vote. The provided that those who have voted before 1866 or 1867 or their descendants, would be exempt for education, tax or property requirements to vote
Grandfather clause
The _____ ________ __ of 1964 was the most comprehensive civil rights legislation ever enacted by Congress. It contain extensive measures to dismantle Jim Crow segregation and combat racial discrimination
Civil Rights Act
The ______ v. ______ case was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decisions that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine , however the court case made it officially legal to segregate race in the U.S.
Plessy v. Ferguson
A Reconstruction Failure, The ___ ____ ____ was established in 1866 as a white supremacy and anti-immigrantion and used terrorism against groups or individuals whom they opposed
Ku Klux Klan
At the March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his inspiration "__ ______ __ ________" speech, which envisioned a world where people were judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character
I Have a Dream
The _____ Amendment was ratified in 1865 and "abolished" slavery in the US
13th Amendment
Sharecropping is also known as slavery by another name since the sharecropper was always in _____
debt
Rosa Park's arrest sparked the _______________ _____ ___________, which the black citizens of Montgomery refused to ride the city's buses in protest over the bus system's policy of racial segregation and was considered the first mass-action of the modern civil rights era.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The era of _____________ was a period in U.S. history from 1865-1877 where the US would rebuild its nation, but conflicts arises because disagree on how to deal with South
Reconstruction
Along with resistance from Southerners, President ___________ vetoed funding of the Freedmen's Bureau, claiming it interfered with states rights and gave preference to one group of citizens over another
President Johnson
The ____________ ______ of 1961 were organized by the CORE
Freedom Rides
______________ was a way for very poor farmers, both white and black, to earn a living from land owned by someone else and was the response to economic upheaval caused by the end of slavery
Sharecropping
State troopers attacked civil rights activist with tear gas, nightsticks, and electric cattle prods during the March from Selma to Montgomery, which became known as ____________ ____________, tis made President Johnson realize that the Civil rights legislation was necessary.
Bloody Sunday
The ________ _____ _____________ took place on August 28, 1963 and was one of the largest civil rights rallies in US history, and one of the most famous examples of non-violent mass direct action and was the big event that led to the ratification of the Civil Right Act of 1964. CORE, NAACP, and SCLC were involved
March on Washington
_________ was premeditated extrajudicial killing by a group by hanging
Lynching
Laws that were created before, during, and after Reconstruction to segregate races are known as __ ____ __________
de jure segregation
The March on Washington was highly publicized in the news media, and helped to gather momentum for the passage of the Civil Rights Act in _______.
1964
The ___ ___ _____________ was nonviolent movement of the U.S. civil rights era that began in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960 and was act of civil disobedience that aroused sympathy for the demonstrators. They were started by the SNCC
Sit-in movement
The ___________ ___________ was the movement of six million African-Americans caused by economic inequalities out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970
Great Migration
__ ______ segregation refers to racial segregation that is not supported by law and caused by a result of natural condition or gulf between financial classes
De facto
Following a _____________ 1956 ruling by the Supreme Court that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional, the bus boycott ended successfully. It had lasted 381 day
November
In______________________________ (1954) a unanimous Supreme Court declared that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
__________ ___________ ______ ___, a Baptist minister who endorsed nonviolent civil disobedience, emerged as the leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King Jr.
The restriction of voting is known as ___________
disenfranchisement
The ______ ____ _____ was caused by SCLC to protest to have the right to vote, which led to the ratification of the Voting Rights Act
March from Selma
The March on Washington had _______,_______ protesters and is considered the largest rally in US History
250,000
The __________ ____ _______ ________ was formed in 1942 as an interracial organization committed to achieving integration through nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience
Congress for Racial Equality
What are two examples of disenfranchisement
Poll Tax, Literacy Test
The __________ _________ __________ __________ was organized by MLK, which organized sit -in, marches and boycotts
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The ___________ ___________ ___________ of 1965-1967, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel, and Al Raby, was created to challenge systematic racial segregation and discrimination in Chicago and its suburbs. The movement which included rallies, protest marches, boycotts, and other forms of non-violent direct action
Chicago Freedom Movement
The _____ Amendment gave "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
15th Amendment
The 24th amendment banned _____ _____
poll taxes
Thurgood Marshall became the first African American ________________________
Supreme Court Justice
The _____ Amendment was ratified in 1868 to provide a broad definition of US citizenship that prohibits states from depriving citizens of life, liberty or property without a legal process and requires each state to provide equal protection under the law to all people.
14th Amendment
_____________ _____________, also known as the Freedom Summer Project or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 by the SNCC to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi.
Freedom Summer
The expression "___________ _____ _______" refers to the legally or socially enforced physical separation from African Americans and other races of color
separate but equal
In _____________, the Court ordered that schools undertake desegregation in all school, disproving "separate but equal".
Brown II
The _____________ _____________ was established in 1865 help former slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War by providing food, housing, medical aid, schools, legal assistance, and settle former slaves on land
Freedmen's Bureau
Women's Rights
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The _________ _________ _________(ERA) was a proposed on March 1972 that was proposed by the NOW in 1923, but unratified amendment to the U.S. Constitution that was designed mainly to invalidate many state and federal laws that discriminate against women
Equal Rights Amendment
Starting after WWII had ended, ____________ ____________ ____________ focused on issues of equality and discrimination
Second Wave Feminism
_______ ___ stated that "no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance "
Title IX
Betty Friedan's, __________ __________, gave voice to millions of American women's frustrations with their limited gender roles and helped spark widespread public activism for gender equality
Feminine Mystique
The ______________ ______ ____________, assembly held on July 19-20, 1848 that launched the women suffrage movement in the United States during First Wave Feminism. It was lead by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
Seneca Falls Convention
______________ ___ ______________ outlined the rights that American women should be entitled to as it argued for equal rights for women and men and was framework for the women's suffrage movement. It discusses the lack of women suffrage, participation, and representation in the government, etc.
Declaration of Sentiments
Emerged from an abolitionist movement to end slavery ________ ________ ________ took place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and focused on opening opportunities for women, with a focus of suffrage
First Wave Feminism
The _____ Amendment(1920) gave the right to vote to women
19th Amendent
____________ v. ____________ was a legal case on June 7, 1965 that ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects the liberty of married couples to buy and use contraceptive without government restrictions
Griswold v. Connecticut
____________ ____________ ___ ____________ was an American activist organization founded in 1966 that promotes equal rights for women and is the largest feminist group in the United States
National Organization for Women
Asian-American
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The _______ _________ demonstration started because of the inequality for equal opportunities for Chinese workers
Confucius Plaza
The ________ ___________ ___________ ___________ in Berkley became the first organization to use "Asian American" and stopped the use of the word "oriental".
Asian American Political Alliance
The formation of the ____ ____ ____ ____ in San Francisco and Berkeley were unprecedented coalition of Black, Chicano, Asian, and Native American students who demanded relevant ethnic communities studies proposed innovative curriculum programs, minority admissions and staffing reforms
Third World Liberation Front
LGBTQ+
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__________ ____ was the first openly gay man elected to political office in California, who ran for San Francisco city supervisor in 1978 and used the rainbow flag as the pride flag
Harvey Milk
The outbreak of ____ in the United States dominated the struggle for gay rights in the 1980s and early 1990s as it was reported five healthy gay men contracted it
AIDS
In June 1969, the ______________ ____ were demonstrations between police and gay rights activist outside the Stonewall Inn, which the fight for LGBT rights in the United States
Stonewall Riots
The Mattachine Foundation formed the ___________ ___________, which published the US second gay publication, the Mattachine Review.
Mattachine Society
________ ________, a German immigrant, found the Society for human rights and created the newsletter "Friendship and Freedom", the country's first gay-interest newsletter.
Henry Gerber
Christopher Street Liberation was the first gay pride parade that took place in ____, a year after Stonewall uprising
1970
Dale Jennings formed the _____ Inc., which welcomed women and published ONE, the country's first pro-gay magazine
One
In 1993, President Clinton Passed the "________ ____, _________ ____" policy which allowed gay men and women to serve in the military as long as they kept it a secret, but was repealed in 2011 by President Obama
Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Congress passed the __________ ____ ___________ ____ which prevented the government from granting federal marriage benefits to same-sex couples
Defense of Marriage Act
In 1966, members of the Mattachine Society in New York City staged a ____ ____ where they go to taverns and declare they are gay
sip in
Four lesbian couples in San Francisco founded an organization called the Daughters of Bilitis, which soon began publishing a newsletter called _____ ___________, first lesbian publication of any kind
the Ladder
In 1950, Harry Hay founded the ___________ ___________, one of the nations first gay rights group and coined the term "homophile"
Mattachine Foundation
In 1952, the_____________ ___________ ___________ listed homosexuality as a form of mental disorder in 1952
American Psychiatric Association
Shortly after the Stonewall Riots, members of the Mattachine society formed the ____ _________ ____, a radical group that launched public demonstrations, protest and confrontations with political officials
Gay Liberation Front