Civil Rights by Hannah Huggins https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi Vocabulary en-us 2017-04-06 22:17:26 UTC 2026-01-17 20:12:50 UTC hello@padlet.com Racism-prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165274967 2017-04-06 22:18:59 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165274967 NAACP-the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is a civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of "people of color." hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275149 2017-04-06 22:21:14 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275149 Montgomery Bus Boycott- in which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating, took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale demonstration against segregation in the U.S. On December 1, 1955. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275306 2017-04-06 22:23:28 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275306 Sit ins-The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275336 2017-04-06 22:24:02 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275336 Freedom Rides-were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275463 2017-04-06 22:26:03 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275463 March on Washington-for Jobs and Freedom, political demonstration held in Washington, D.C., in 1963 by civil rights leaders to protest racial discrimination and to show support for major civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275615 2017-04-06 22:28:37 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275615 Freedom Summer- Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275643 2017-04-06 22:28:54 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275643 Selma March-1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) ... hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275655 2017-04-06 22:29:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275655 Martin Luther King Jr- was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who first rose to prominence as leader of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott challenging segregated public transportation. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275676 2017-04-06 22:29:24 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275676 de facto segregation-especially in public schools, that happens “by fact” rather than by legal requirement. For example, often the concentration of African-Americans in certain neighborhoods produces neighborhood schools that are predominantly black, or segregated in fact (de facto), although not by law (de jure). hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275684 2017-04-06 22:29:36 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275684 Civil Rights Act 1964-civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275693 2017-04-06 22:29:47 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275693 Voting Rights Act 1968-defines housing discrimination as the “refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, religion, or national origin”. Title VIII of this Act is commonly referred to as the Fair Housing Act of 1968. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275706 2017-04-06 22:30:00 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275706 Black Power movement-The progress made by African Americans in the 1950s and early 1960s at achieving their civil rights was compromised by violence. Frankly, many young blacks rejected the courage and patience displayed by Dr. Martin Luther King in his non-violent response to injustice in American society. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275724 2017-04-06 22:30:12 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275724 Malcolm X-An African-American political leader of the twentieth century. A prominent Black Muslim, Malcolm X explained the group's viewpoint in a book written by Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X. He was assassinated in 1965. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275737 2017-04-06 22:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275737 Stokely Carmichael-was a Trinidadian-American who became a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement and the global Pan-African movement. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275748 2017-04-06 22:30:37 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275748 Black Panthers-practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275762 2017-04-06 22:30:53 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275762 Roe vs. Wade-U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas affirmed in part, reversed in part. Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. It was decided simultaneously with a companion case, Doe v. Bolton. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275779 2017-04-06 22:31:13 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275779 Equal rights amendment-is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for all citizens regardless of gender; it seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275800 2017-04-06 22:31:36 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/98lknfdpxthi/wish/165275800