Download 1. Constitutionality

1. Constitutionality
In accordance with the constitution of
a country, state, etc.
2. Jim Crow Laws
A practice or policy of segregating or
discriminating against blacks, as in public
places, public vehicles, or employment. J
3. Poll Tax
A tax of a fixed amount per person and payable
as a requirement for the right to vote
4. Segregation
1. a social system that provides separate facilities
for minority groups
5. Plessy Vs. Ferguson
A landmark case in the United States, approving
racial segregation in public facilities.
6. Desegregation
The action of incorporating a racial or religious
group into a community.
7. Boycott
A group's refusal to have commercial dealings with
some organization in protest against its policies;
refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with.
8. Integration
Incorporation as equals into society or an
organization of individuals of different groups
(as races)
9. Legacy
Anything handed down from the past,
as from an ancestor.
10. Brown Vs. Board of Education
Viewed as the turning point in the Civil
Rights Movement. Ended the legal basis
for racial segregation in schools and other
public facilities in the United States. The
case overturned legal precedent set in Plessy
v. Ferguson
11. Freedom Riders
A series of student political protests performed in
1961 as part of the US civil rights movement.
Both blacks and white students helped many of
the Civil Rights campaigns, including campaigns
for voter registration, freedom schools, and
electoral campaigns.
12. Rosa Parks
United States civil rights leader who refused to
give up her seat on a bus to a white man in
Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the
national civil rights movement (born in 1913)
13. N.A.A.C.P.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP) is an American civil rights
organization. Was one of the leading
organizations involved in the civil rights
struggle of the 1960s and 70s.
14. Civil Rights Act of 1964
The original purpose of this Bill was to
protect black men from job discrimination,
but at the last minute, in an attempt to kill
the bill, women were included. It
prohibited discrimination in public and
governmental facilities.
15. Voting Rights Act of 1965
Outlawed literacy tests and provided for
federal registration of African-American
voters in areas that had less than 50% of
eligible voters registered.
16. Harry S. Truman
Elected Vice President in Roosevelt’s 4th term;
became 33rd President of the United States on
Roosevelt’s death in 1945. He was elected
President in 1948; authorized the use of atomic
bombs against Japan (1884-1972)
17. Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States general who supervised the
invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi
Germany; 34th President of the United States
18. John F. Kennedy
The 35th President of the United States and was
the youngest person so far to be elected U.S.
President. He established the Peace Corps; was
assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22,
1963.
19. Lyndon Johnson
36th President of the United States; was elected
vice president and succeeded Kennedy when
Kennedy was assassinated
20. Richard Nixon
37th president from 1969 until he resigned from
office under the threat of impeachment. He was
the first President to resign from office.