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| Civil Rights Movement | legal and other efforts led by African Americans against racism and segregation and for the enactment of legislation ensuring their full civil and human rights. The modern Civil Rights movement dates to the mid-1950s and proceeded in earnest throughout the 1960s |
| NAACP | The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP and pronounced N-double-A-C-P, is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States |
| Civil Rights Act | Prohibited abridgement of rights of blacks or any other citizens |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | gave the federal government the power to ensure that voting was fair and free of discrimination |
| Conscientious objector | a person who has moral or religious for not fighting |
| National Urban League | a civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States |
| Congress of Racial Equality | a U.S. civil rights organization that played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement |
| sit-in | a form of civil disobedience in which demonstrators occupy seats and refuse to move |
| Southern Christian Leadership Conference | an American civil rights organization founded by Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee | American civil rights organization founded by college students at Shaw Universit in North Carolina |
