What is the elimination of special treatment or privilege based on race?

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CHAPTER 9 HISTORY POWERPOINT

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CHAPTER 9 HISTORY

POWERPOINT

What is the elimination of special treatment or privilege based on race?

Desegregation

What is to abstain from the use of a good or product?

Boycott

What was the “most segregated city in America” before 1964?

Birmingham

What are public gatherings to express feeling towards an idea or policy?

Demonstration

What are the basic, nonpolitical rights and freedoms?

Civil rights

What was the site of the voting rights demonstrations?

Selma

Who are men and women who have served in the military?

Veterans

What are laws and customs that separated the races in the South and kept blacks from having the same opportunities as whites?

Jim Crow Laws

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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