| A | B |
|---|
| De facto segregation | Racial seperation established by practice and custom, not by law. |
| De jure segregation | Racial seperation established by law. |
| Malcom X | A former member of the Nation of Islam, who at one time preached seperation from whites, and armed self-defense, later changing his views to seek and end to inequality. |
| Nation of Islam | A religious group, popularly known as the Black Muslims, founded by Elijah Muhammad to promote black seperatism and the Islamic religion. |
| Stokely Carmichael | A SNCC memeber who after being arrested during a peaceful protest, coined the phrase 'Black Power'. |
| Black Power | A slogan--first used in the 1940s and revived by Stokely Carmichael in the 1960s--that encouraged African-American pride and politcal and social leadership. |
| Black Panthers | A militant African-American political organization formed in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to fight police brutality and to provide services in the ghetto. |
| Kerner Comission | A group that was appointed by President Johnson to study the causes of urban violence and that recomended the elimination of de facto segregation in American society. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1968 | A law that banned discrimination in housing. |
| Affirative action | A policy that seeks to correct the effects of past discrimination by favoring the groups who were previously disadvantaged. |
