CHAPTER 9 HISTORY
POWERPOINT
What is the elimination of special treatment or privilege based on race?
What is to abstain from the use of a good or product?
What was the “most segregated city in America” before 1964?
What are public gatherings to express feeling towards an idea or policy?
What are the basic, nonpolitical rights and freedoms?
What was the site of the voting rights demonstrations?
Who are men and women who have served in the military?
What are laws and customs that separated the races in the South and kept blacks from having the same opportunities as whites?
During the economic boom of the 1950’s, people could buy things that had once been considered “luxury items” like…
Refrigerators and washing machines
What made farming more efficient after WWII?
Mechanical cotton pickers and chemical poisons
Rosa Parks was an African American seamstress whose actions started the…
Montgomery bus boycott
_______ received the _______ for his leadership in the Civil Rights Movement.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobel Peace Prize
After WWII, the G.I. Bill provided veterans with…
Educational benefits and home loans
The _______ made it illegal to deny people access to public facilities based on race.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Protestors in Selma held demonstrations demanding…
The right to vote
In the _______, the Supreme Court ruled that separate schools _______.
Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education
Could not be equal
During the 1960’s, the new civil rights laws helped women…
Gain the right for equal pay for equal work
When Congress passed the _______ many of the restrictions that had been placed on blacks at the polls were erased.
Voting Rights Act
The boycott of buses in Montgomery ended when the Supreme Court…
Ruled that segregation on public transportation was unconstitutional.
_______ provided farmers with a way to get their produce to the people in cities.
Farm to Market roads
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