A | B |
discrimination | actions or policies that hurt a person and are based on prejudice |
Civil Rights Act of 1964 | made discrimination in the US illegal |
Voting Rights Act of 1964 | made it illegal to interfere with voting and made literacy tests illegal |
literacy test | means to keep African Americans from voting using test of reading/writing |
poll tax | means to keep African Americans by requiring payment to vote |
Plessy v. Ferguson | case that declared "Separate but Equal Doctrine" making segregation LEGAL |
Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka KS | case that made segregation ILLEGAL |
Declaration of Independence | promises equality and freedom |