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| Little Rock 9 | first students to integrate Central High School in 1957 in Arkansas |
| President Kennedy | supported Civil Rights until his assassination, Nov. 22,1963 |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Selma, Alabama | home of planned 54 mile march over 600 Civil Rights supports, ended in violence |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | President ordered federal troops to force an end to segregation at Central High School |
| Diane Nash | organizer of the 1960 sit ins in Nashville, Tennessee, spokes person for civil rights |
| Edmund Pettus Bridge | starting point of the famous march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 |
| Bloody Sunday | 600 civil rights supporters began a 54 mile march from Selma to Montgomery and were met with violence by Alabama State Troopers |
| Martin Luther King | charismatic civil rights leader, founded Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, assassinated in 1968 |
| sit-in | type of action often used as a way to end segregation at lunch counters and restaurants in the South during the Civil Rights Movement |
| SNCC | locally organized, grassroots civil rights group |
| Ernest Green | first African American to graduate from Central High School in Little Rock |
| 15th Amendment | 1870 voting rights given to African Americans |
| Jimmy Lee Jackson | shot by Alabama trooper for protecting his mother, sparked the Selma march |
| George Wallace | "Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever." |
| Elizabeth Eckford | one of the "Little Rock Nine" who walked to school alone |
| Rosa Parks | 1955 African American refused to move to the back of the bus |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | 1896 Supreme Court ruling that segregation is legal, "Seperate but Equal" |
| March on Washington | event attended by 250,000 people to show support for pending civil rights legislation in 1963, "I Have A Dream" speech delivered |
| Bull O'Connor | Chief of Police in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 responded to demonstrators by turning fire hoses and snarling dogs on them |
| Lyndon Johnson | friend of civil rights, signed Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Act of 1965 |
| Black Codes | these laws passed in southern states were meant to limit freedom of Blacks |
| Orval Faubus | Governor of Arkansas supported segregation in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957 |
| Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 Supreme Court decision declaring that segregation is not equal or legal |
| 13th Amendment | 1865 abolished slavery |
| integration | desegregation |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | 381 day long event which ended segregation on public buses and trains, etc. |
| segregation | seperation by race |
| Voting Rights Act | 1965 law to end rules that southern states used to prevent Blacks from voting |
| 16th Street Baptisit Church | scene of a bombing that killed four little girls in Birmingham, Alabama |
| Freedom Summer | 1964 voter registration drive in Mississippi during which 3 civil rights volunteers,Cheney, Goodman and Schwerner were killed |
| SCLC or Southern Christian Leadership Conference | nonviolent civil rights group founded by Martin Luther King, Jr in 1957 |
| Letter from Birmingham jail | "Justice too long delayed is justice denied" |
| Emmett Till | Chicago teen killed in Mississippi for "fresh talking" a white women, "Bye, Baby" |
| 14th Amendment | 1868 guaranteed citizens of the US, regardless of race, equal protection of the law |
| Daisy Bates | NAACP Arkansas President who counseled the "Little Rock Nine" in 1957 |
| boycott | refusal to buy something as a protest |
