| A | B |
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| Brown vs. Board of Education | Supreme Court ruling that desegregated schools |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | Supreme Court ruling that separate but equal was not against the constitution |
| Rosa Parks | would not give up her seat on the bus to a white man |
| Malcolm X | leader of the Nation of Islam, black power, believed blacks needed to do everything for themselves and rely on whites for nothing |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | believed in peaceful protesting |
| Freedom Riders | rode in buses with blacks and whites mixed, or blacks in front, whites in back |
| sit-ins | blacks would sit at counters in stores until served, arrested, or the store closed-peaceful protesting |
| NAACP | group formed to pursue the goals of economic, social, and educational equality for African Americans |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | banned segregation in public places and prohibited discrimination on basis of color, sex, religion, and nationality in jobs, schools, and unions |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | law that protected all citizens right to vote |
| segregation | practice of separating blacks and whites in public facilities |
| March of Washington | 200,000-500,000 people of all colors marched on Washington in protest against segregation |
| I have a dream... | MLK's famous speech at the March on Washington |
| Civil Rights Movement | time period in which many barriers were broken down in a short period of time |
