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20 Facts: Notes to prepare you for the test Thursday

Sit back, and listen to this video clip. Please, refrain from talking and think about the words and the pictures…

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1) De jure Segregation: segregation by lawFrom 1923 Alabama law: “All railroads carrying

passengers in this state….shall provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races, by providing two or more passenger cars for each passenger train, or by dividing the passenger cars by partitions, so as to secure separate accommodations.”

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2) Restrictive CovenantFrom homeowners in the Washington Park

neighborhood in Chicago in 1927: “…no part of said premises shall be sold, given, conveyed or leased to any negro, and no permission or license to use or occupy any part thereof shall be given to any negro except house servants or janitors or chauffeurs emplyed thereon.”


3) Executive Order 9981Issued by President Harry Truman in 1948Called for desegregation of the armed forces


4) Nonviolent ResistanceMartin Luther King, Jr. Southern Christian Leadership Conference


5) Brown v. Board of EducationLawsuit that was brought before the Supreme Court

to challenge the constitutionality of school segregation laws.


6) Tactics used to disenfranchise African American votersPoll Tax & Literacy Tests: kept many blacks from

votingGerrymandering: practice of redrawing the lines of

a voting district to give one party or group of voters an advantage

White Primary: primary election in which only whites could vote or campaign


7) Japanese American Citizens League The main goal was to obtain reparations for

Japanese Americans interned during WWII.


8) Red Power MovementResponsible for the occupation of Alcatraz Island,

the Trail of Broken Treaties, and the Longest Walk (5 month protest)


9) Cesar ChavezHelped found the United Farm WorkersOrganized a national boycott of grapesUsed hunger strikes to draw attention to the plight

of migrant workers


10) National Organization for WomenFounded in the 1960’s “to bring women into full

participation in the mainstream of American society.”


11) Equal Rights AmendmentSubmitted to every session of Congress since 1923.Passed by Congress in 1972.Failed to be ratified by the states.


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12) Affirmative ActionMost responsible for the increase in minority

college-enrolled students.


13) Civil Rights Act of 1964Outlawed racial discrimination in

EmploymentPublic accommodationsPublic schoolsNOT housing


14) Civil Rights Act of 1968Outlawed racial discrimination in

HOUSING


15) Black PanthersSent observers into the streets armed with law

books and shotguns to protect blacks from police mistreatment in the 1960’s.


16) Malcolm XJoined the Nation of Islam in 1952 to promote black

nationalismRejected nonviolence as a strategy to bring about

changeConverted to orthodox Islam in 1964 and reached

out to people of all races


17) Voting Rights Act of 1965Required federal supervision of voter registration in

parts of the SouthRaised the number of eligible black voters in

Mississippi from 7% to 59%


18) Civil Rights Protest in Birmingham, 1963City leaders agreed to desegregate public facilities

in Birmingham.


19) Freedom SummerCampaign that was aimed at registering African

Americans in the state with the lowest percentage of black voters (Mississippi)


20) Kerner Commission The spread of race riots from Watts to other urban

ghettos led to the formation of the Kerner Commission.

“Social and economic conditions…constituted a clear pattern of sever disadvantages for Negroes compared with whites.”


FIND SOMEONE WHO…Complete the “Find Someone Who” Activity, finding

a different person to fill out each of the 14 boxesThis will be your study guide (14 out of the 20

questions)Keep in mind that each of the PowerPoint slides we

reviewed were directly from the test (this is on the website along with the study guide and Jeopardy)

Jeopardy review WednesdayTest Thursday


FIND SOMEONE WHO…Complete the “Find Someone Who” Activity,

finding a different person to fill out each of the 14 boxes

This will be your study guide (14 out of the 20 questions)

Keep in mind that each of the PowerPoint slides we reviewed were directly from the test (this is on the website along with the study guide and Jeopardy)

Jeopardy review WednesdayTest Thursday

Tuesday, March 29th: Civil Rights Review

Quick WriteFor every event or person you remember from the

Civil Rights era, write this down on a single strip of paper.

You will have 2 minutes to write as many as you remember

After time is called, you will go around and share your events/people with the others in your group, beginning with the youngest person.Eliminate the duplicatesReview what each person/event means

Traveling RepresentativeYou will send one person to “travel” to the other groups

to share what your group came up with You will have 2 minutes to share at each group


Dueling Flipcharts/White BoardsThe class will be split into two different groups.When time begins (you will have 4 minutes), you

will get in a straight line and each person will write one event/person from the Civil Rights, returning to the end of the line.

When time is called, the events/people will be reviewed

The winning team will receive one “veto” question on the test


Wednesday, March 30th: Civil Rights Review

Thursday, March 31st: Civil Rights TEST

Friday, April 1st: Makeup Day (Not April Fools!)

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