| A | B |
|---|
| 13th Admendment | abolished slavery |
| 14th Admendment | all citizens should have equal rights and privileges |
| 15th Admendment | All men have the right to vote, regardless of race |
| Civil Rights | liberties and freedoms all citizens of the US share |
| Some southern cities made black people | take a literacy test, pay a poll tax, and threatened them with violence when they wanted to register to vote |
| WEB Dubois | helped found the NAACP |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Purpose of NAACP | to win civil rights for black people, especially the right to vote |
| boycott | to stop using/buying something to make a point |
| seregation | keeping white people and black people apart |
| Jim Crow Laws | law that kept black and white people seperate |
| Separate but Equal | separate but equal facilities, bathrooms, schools, railroad cars...for blacks and whites |
| Ku Klux Klan | terrorist organization dedicated to violence against black people |
| Brown vs. the Board of Education | lawsuit that ended segregation in schools in 1954 |
| Rosa Parks | would not give up her seat on a bus, sparked the Montgomery bus boycott |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | caused the Sepreme Court to make bus segreation illegal in 1956 |
| Ruby Bridges | 1960 - one of the first black students to go to an all white school after schools became disegrated |
| Martin Luther King Jr | worked for racial equality, believed in peaceful demonstrations, assassinated in 1968 |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | signed by President Lyndon Johnson segregation in all public places was officially illegal |
| Voting Rights Act: 1965 | made poll taxes and literacy tests illegal |
