| A | B |
|---|
| Jim Crow laws | segregation laws |
| segregation | strict separation of the races in schools, theaters, restaurants, and other public places |
| lynched | murdered by mobs; 1890's-this happened to more than 1000 African Americans |
| Civil Rights Movement | the efforts by African and Mexican Americans to step up their struggle for equality |
| integration | the mixing of different racial groups |
| Civil Disobedience | nonviolent protest against unjust laws; supported by Martin Luther King |
| boycott | refuse to use; African Americans refused to use the Montgomery buses hoping to hurt city financially and end segregation on the buses |
| 14th Amendment | all persons shall be equally protected under the law; used to argue that segregation was unconstitutional |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | court ruling that segregation was legal as long as facilities were equal; "separate but equal" |
| Voting Rights Act 1965 | Ended poll taxes and literacy tests; African-Americans now register and vote in large numbers |
| Public Accommodations | Hotels, restaurants, shops, public restrooms and drinking fountains are all examples |
| Sit-in | People sit and refuse to leave |
| Freedom Rides | Busloads of young Freedom Riders rode from town to town to integrate bus terminals in the South. |
| Black Codes | Laws passed by many states after the Civil War that affected the rights and freedoms of the freed slaves |
| Poll tax | Citizens had to pay a fee to the poll worker before they could vote. |
| Poll test | Citizens had to pass reading and logic questions that the poll worker "graded". If you were white, you usually passed. |
| Grandfather Clause | Only those who had grandfathers who could vote before the Civil War could vote in elections. |
| Interracial | Describes the mixing of different races through marriage and family and was illegal in many states |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln's 1863 declaration free slaves in the Confederacy |
