A | B |
Segergation | Seperation By Race |
Discrimination | Unfair Treatment By Race |
Jim Crow Laws | Seperate Blacks From Whites In Public Places |
15th Amendment | Black Men Can Vote |
13th Amendment | Freed All Slaves |
14th Amendment | Considered All Blacks As Citizens |
Freeman's Bureau | Provided Food And Medical Care For Freed Slaves |
Sharecropping | When Freed Slaves Rented Land And Paied The Owner Half Of The Profit |
Reconstruction | A Plan To Rebuild The South After the Civil War |
Massive Resistance | Law That Didn't Fund Integerated Schools |
Lead Massive Resistance | Harry F. Byrd |
integration | full equality of all races in the use of pubic place |
prejudice | a negative opinion formed without proof |
civil rights movement | an organized manner to achieve equally treatment |
seperate but equal | people who remain segregated; outcome of Plessy v Ferguson |
boycotts and sit-ins | to refuse business or have contact with a person, group, protest |
Maggie Walker | Founded Saint Luke Penny Savings Bank |
Arthur Ashe | Tennis player, author and spokesperson |
L. Douglas Wilder | First African American governor in US |
Oliver Hill | Lawyer that played a HUGE role in Brown vs Board of Education |
A. Linwood Holton | Appointed African Americans and women to positions in state government; governor that promoted race equality |
urban | cities |
rural | country |
Made voting difficult for blacks | poll tax and literacy tests |
Martin Luther King Jr. | Protested with Nonviolence;gave I have a Dream Speech |
Rosa Parks | Refused to give her seat up on a bus |
Jackie Robinson | First African American baseball player |
1896 | the date of Plessy vs Ferguson court case |
1954 | date of Brown vs Board of Education court case |
Why did people move to the cities? | Better job, make more money |
What natural resource was found in southwest Virginia | coal |
What type of jobs were available in northern Virginia | Federal jobs |
What city is near the beach? | Newport News |