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| Plessy v.Ferguson | (1896), is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation even in public accommodations (particularly railroads), under the doctrine of "separate but equal". |
| Thirteenth amendment | officially prohibited slavery in the U.S |
| Fourteenth amendment | it expanded the defintion of the U.S citizenship to include people of all races |
| Fifteenth amendment | it protects the voting rights of african american men |
| Ku Klux Klan | a series of white supremacist organizations claiming lineal descent from the original KKK, which began after the Civil War of the 1860s. |
| Jim Crow Laws | the system of racial segregation in the South, separated blacks from whites in all aspects of public life |
| Black codes | highly restrictive laws that Southern states adopted after the Civil War to regulate the freedom and movement of former slaves |
| seperate but not equal 1896 | ensured the sepeation of the races in schools and public accomadations |
| segregation | seperated people, of different races as a form of discrimination |
| integration | combining different races |
| brown vs. board of education | a landmark case where the courts decide that the public schools were to be integrated |
| civil rights | the rights of full legal social and economic equality extended to blacks in the 13 and 14 amendments |
| civil rights movement | movement in the U.S. in 1960's led by blacks to give equal rights to black cidizens |
| "NAACP" | "NAACP" int he 1950s this group used the court to end racial discrimination: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| nonviolence | the practice of not using violence during protests |
| boycott | to stop buying or using |
| Sit-in | an orginized passive protests where people sit peacfully and refuse to leave |
| Teach-in | a way of protesting where lectures and speeches go on un-interrupted |
| Freedom riders | people who road the buses and sat in the wrong seats on purpose |
| Civil disobedience | disobeying certain laws in non-violent ways in order to make a point |
| New frontier | JFK running for president in 1960 and wanted to do socail security, health insurance, urban development, and renewal, and move comprehensive wellfair |
| Great society | the collective name for the president Lyndon B. Johnson's domestic policies, which redefined the clivision of power beetwen the states and the federal government |
| Civil liberties | the freedom of a citizen, the basic rights givin to them |
