Flashcards: History of racial segregation in the United States

The Civil Rights Movement or 1960s Civil Rights Movement (sometimes referred to as the "African-American Civil Rights Movement" although the term "African American" was not widely used in the 1950s and 1960s) encompasses social movements in the United States whose goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans and to secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights enumerated in the Constitution and federal law.

The Problem We All Live With is a 1964 painting by Norman Rockwell.

Jena /ˈdʒiːnə/ is a large town in and the parish seat of La Salle Parish, Louisiana, United States.

The States' Rights Democratic Party (usually called the Dixiecrats) was a short-lived segregationist political party in the United States in 1948.

Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896) was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court.

Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.

The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Elizabeth Eckford (born October 4, 1941) is one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

The Montgomery bus boycott, a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.

The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A.

The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.

A Time to Kill is a 1989 legal suspense thriller by John Grisham.

The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door took place at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963.

Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.

George Corley Wallace, Jr.

Jesse Alexander Helms Jr.

Leon Aaron Gilbert, Jr.

Victor Hugo Green (November 9, 1892 - 1960) was an African American postal employee from Harlem, New York City, best known for developing and writing what became known as The Green Book, a travel guide for African Americans in the United States.

Vincent Stanislaus Waters (August 15, 1904—December 3, 1974) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

Delmar Boulevard is a major east-west street in St.

The "nadir of American race relations" was the period in the history of the Southern United States from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the early 20th century, when racism in the country was worse than in any other period after the American Civil War.

The Moulin Rouge Hotel was a hotel and casino located in the West Las Vegas neighborhood of Las Vegas, Nevada, that is listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places.

York Center is an unincorporated community in York Township, DuPage County, Illinois, United States.

Babbitt, Nevada, was a populated place established as a 1941 government housing facility for workers of the neighboring Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot.

An Indian reservation is a legal designation for an area of land managed by a Native American tribe under the US Bureau of Indian Affairs, rather than the state governments of the United States in which they are physically located.

Addison Roswell Thompson, known as A.

Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story is a 2007 documentary film, produced and directed by Bill Kavanagh.

Bob Jones University (BJU) is a private non-denominational Protestant university in Greenville, South Carolina, United States, known for its conservative cultural and religious positions.

The 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment was a segregated United States Army infantry regiment made up of Filipino Americans from the continental United States and a few veterans of the Battle of the Philippines that saw combat during World War II.

John Robert Lewis (born February 21, 1940) is an American politician and civil rights leader.

Maniac Magee is a novel written by American author Jerry Spinelli and published in 1990.

Samuel "Sammy" Leamon Younge Jr.

Two national Freedom Trains have toured the United States: the 1947–49 special exhibit Freedom Train and the 1975-76 American Freedom Train that celebrated the United States Bicentennial.

Orville Liscum Hubbard (April 2, 1903 – December 16, 1982) was the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan for 36 years, from 1942 to 1978.

John Ben Shepperd (October 19, 1915 – March 8, 1990) was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the Secretary of State (1950-1952) and Attorney General (1953–1957) for the U.

Herman Eugene Talmadge (August 9, 1913 – March 21, 2002), was an attorney and a Democratic American politician from the state of Georgia, the son of former governor Eugene Talmadge.

The Cotton States and International Exposition Speech was an address on the topic of race relations given by Booker T.

The International Sweethearts of Rhythm was the first integrated all women's band in the United States.

Wilberforce Colony was a colony established by free African American citizens, founded in c.

St. James Episcopal Church Lafayette Square, or St.

Benign neglect was a policy proposed in 1969 by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who was at the time on President Richard Nixon's staff as an urban affairs adviser.

Mendez vs. Westminster: For All the Children/Para Todos los Niños is a 2003 American documentary film written, directed, and produced by Sandra Robbie.

Asian Americans, who are Americans of Asian descent, have fought and served on behalf of the United States since the War of 1812.

The Military history of African Americans spans from the arrival of the first black slaves during the colonial history of the United States to the present day.

New South, New South Democracy or New South Creed is a slogan in the history of the American South, after 1877.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a book by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights litigator and legal scholar.

John William Davis (September 12, 1916 – October 3, 1992) was an American politician and lawyer.

Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era was based on a series of laws, new constitutions, and practices that were deliberately used to prevent black citizens from registering to vote and voting.

The Shelley House was the focus of the 1948 United States Supreme Court case Shelley v.