The Campaign for equal, social, economic and politic rights and opportunities.
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What does Discrimination mean?
Unfair treatment of individuals because of their gender, race of religious beliefs.
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What are Integrated Combat Units?
Combat units including all soldiers irrespective of race.
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What are Race Riots?
Riots by one race against the other.
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What is Segregation?
Separating groups due to their race or religion. This could include separate housing, education, health treatment access to public buildings.
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What does the NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of coloured people.
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What does CORE stand for?
Congress of Racial Equality
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Which organisation had fought for black people's civil rights before the second world war?
The NAACP and the CORE were groups that fought for Black people's civil rights before World War II
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What were the effects of Segregation?
Segregation forced Black people to live in poor parts of towns and use separate worse facilities from white people for everything.
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In what ways did Black people contribute to World War II?
Over a million black Americans fought in the US armed forces and 6000 became army officers by the end of the war.
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Did things improve for black people after the war? Why/ Why not?
After the 2nd World War, not many people changed their views on Black people.
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What was the purpose of direct action?
To get publicity on what they were protesting against. This would then pressure the Government to do something about it.
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Why was publicity important?
If the nation saw the protest's against segregation, more people could agree/disagree with it. Therefore the protest's would get bigger, pressuring the government to do something about it.
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Why was Martin Luther King (MLK) a supporter of a non-violent direct action?
Martin Luther King was a Christian, so violence was against his religion, but he also saw how effective peaceful protests, an example taken from Muhatama Gandhi
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What sort of protests did he encourage people to take part in?
Martin Luther King encouraged people to take part of peaceful protests.
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What happened in the Brown vs. Topeka case?
Linda Brown had to walk miles to go to an all black school, even though there was a white school closer to her home. When the case was taken to court, segregation was banned from the US as a result.
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What happened in Linda Rock, Arkansas?
9 black students tried to enroll at Little Rock, an all white school, but were refused even to enter by the local politician; sending guards to keep them out. However, President Eisenhower took action and gave them soldiers to protect them.
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What is the definition of Boycott?
Boycott is a form of peaceful protest, involving not using a public service.
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Who is Rosa Parks and what did she do to become famous?
Mrs. Rosa Parks became famous on the 1st December because she refuse to give up her seat for a white person, resulting in being arrested.
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What were Rosa Parks' nick names?
The first lady of Civil Rights and the Mother of the Freedom movement.
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What did Rosa Parks achieve?
Rosa Parks helped black American's gain equality on public transportation.
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What was the aftermath of Rosa Parks being arrested?
In Montgomery, 40,000 black Americans stopped using the buses in hope that when their profits decreased, they wouldn't segregate the passengers.
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What were the effects of the Brown case on America?
White American's began to protest as they believed that it was against their views. Black Americans realized that that they had support in high places.
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What does MIA stand for?
Montgomery Improvement Association.
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Who was the leader of MIA?
Martin Luther King.
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What did the MIA do?
Their aim was to introduce integration, starting with the buses.
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How many days did the Bus Boycott last?
381 days.
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Why was the Boycott successful?
The Montgomery buses lost 70% profit from the boycott, making it successful.
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What did the Supreme Court rule on 21st December 1956?
The Supreme Court ruled segregation on buses as unconstitutional, therefore illegal.
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How popular was the Supreme Court's decision on the 21st December 1956?
In the Southern states of the US, the ruling wasn't popular within the white community.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
What does Discrimination mean?
Back
Unfair treatment of individuals because of their gender, race of religious beliefs.
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