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| citizenship, equal protection |
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| Reconstruction Acts (1867) |
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| divided territory into 5 military districts; placed union troops in charge of voter registration (black men) |
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| northeners who moved to the south after the civil war |
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| white southeners who supported the republican party and incorporated politically with black men and northern newcomers and supported reconstruction |
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| poor peoples campaign (1968) |
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| an effort to gain justice for poor people in the U.S. ; organized by MLKJ and the SCLC demanded economic and human rights |
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| founded UNIA; black africanism; african blood brotherhood was communist |
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| first black man to play baseball (1947) |
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| a law that banned blacks from voting for the democratic party in Texas |
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| FDR's black group that kept him up on race relatons |
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| 9 black boys accused of raping and assaulting 2 white girls; court had lack of physical evidence |
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| desegregated armed forces |
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| Brown vs.Board of Education |
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| alowed intergrated schools |
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| started because of Rosa Parks |
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| students of SNCC; set a pattern for learning opportunities |
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| first black woman elected to congress |
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| prohibited segregation among federal employees |
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| famous entertainer and civilrights activist |
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| former vice president of Franklin Roosevelt; disagreed with Truman |
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| massacre of black soldiers |
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| southern police arrested blacks and poors for minor offenses, sent to companies for profit |
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| survival of the fittest; justifies Jim Crow laws |
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| black soldiers in the west after reconstruction |
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Tulsa: largest riot
Chicago: doubled the black population
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| first black woman millionaire in america for hair products |
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| heavyweight boxer; prosecuted for bringing a prostitute from Pittsburgh to Chicago |
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| relocation of blacks from the rural south to the north for jobs |
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| most important civil rights leader from the labor movement; organized both of the Marches on Washington |
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| (1920's - 1930's) a literary artistic, and intellectual movement that kindled a new black cultural identity |
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| (1941) proposedby A. Phillip Randolph because benefitted less from the new deal programs during great depression; FDR issues Order 8802 |
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| New York City Draft Riots |
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| (1863) violence because of new laws passed by congress to draft men to fight in the american civil war |
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| Sherman's SpecialField Order #15 |
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| William T. Sherman; redistributed 400,000 acres ofland to newly freed black families; 40 acres and a mule; overturned by Andrew Johnson |
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| formed to help black slaves and poor whites after the civil war (food, housing, schools, legal assistance) |
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| targeted republican leaders and blacks; win back white democratic power |
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| (1896) U.S. supreme court upheld the constitutionality of segregation under the "seperate but equal" doctorine |
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| journalist; anti-lynching activist |
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