| A | B |
|---|
| Discrimination | Unfair treatment of a person or group, usually because of prejudice about race ethnicity, age, religion or gender. |
| Segregation | separation of the races. |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws enforcing segregation |
| Loopholes | Legal ways around laws |
| Cultural Assimilation | The process by which minority groups adapt to the dominant culture in society. |
| Separatist | To break away from whites, creating own country or state. |
| Passive Resistance | The practice of achieving goals through protest, civil disobedience, and other methods, without using violence |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Authorized federal examiners to register qualified voters, it also suspended literacy test. |
| 14th Amendment | granted citizenship |
| The 15th Amendment | prohibited states from denying citizens the right to vote on the basis of “race, color or previous condition of servitude.” |
| Examples of Loopholes | Poll Tax, Literacy Tests |
| Plessy v. Ferguson, expressed a new legal doctrine | “separate but equal” |
| Brown v. Board of Education | “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” |
| "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement". | Rosa Parks |
| Created the philosophy of passive resistance | Mahatma Gandhi |
| “march for freedom,” started in this city and was planned to end in the Capital city of | from Selma to the capital in Montgomery |
| The Nation of Islam preached black nationalism, | or the belief that African Americans should separate themselves from whites and form their own self governing communities. |
| Organized the Black Panther Party | Huey Newton, Bobby Seal, and Eldridge Cleaver |
| The Black Panthers believed | that a revolution was necessary, confront white society in order to force whites to grant them equal rights. |
