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VocabularyAn expanding
Role in Government
The Civil Rights
Movement cont
Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement
Other AmericansSeeking Rights
What is an Boycott?
Organized campaign to refuse
to use or buy different goods or
services
What does ghetto mean?
Poor run-down neighborhood where one group of people
live due to poverty or prejudice
What is mandatory retirement?
Policy that requires people to stop working
at a certain age
What is a sit in?
A form of protest in which people sit and refuse to
leave
What is affirmative action?
Program to provide more job and education opportunity for people
who faced discrimination in the
past
What was the outcome of Miranda v. Arizona?
Miranda Rights, an arrested person
needs to be informed of their
legal rights
What was judicial
activism?
Laws were overturned if they were unfair, past
decisions did not matter
Who killed Kennedy?
Lee Harvey Oswald
What was Lyndon Johnson’s political
slogan?
“War on Poverty”
What is Medicare?
Helps people over 65 pay their medical bills
Who did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr model himself after?
Mohandas Ghandi
What did Freedom Rides
try to do?
Set out to the South to integrate bus stations
before being attacked in Alabama
What did the Civil Rights act of 1964
do?
Outlawed discrimination
What did Stokely
Carmichael preach?
“Black Power”
What did Malcolm X originally want?
Separate black and white communities
What did Plessy V. Ferguson say?
Separate but equal
What did the NAACP do?
Challenged laws that prevented equality
Who was the first baseball player to
cross the Color barrier?
Jackie Robinson
What did Brown v. Board of
Education say?
Separate but equal is not legal and schools were being forced to
integrate
Who had to intervene in Little Rock when the
governor would not let students into the
school?
Federal Troops
What does NOW stand for?
National Organization for
Women
What did Hernandez v. Texas say?
Excluding Mexican
Americans from a Jury is illegal
What did the Equal Pay Act do?
Women were supposed to be paid the same
amount as men
What are examples of Disabilities rights Accommodations?
Reserved Parking, ramps, wheelchair
lifts and braille
What does AARP do?
Health Insurance for
retired Americans
