| A | B |
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| Thurgood Marshall | African-American lawyer who led the legal challenge against segregation |
| Brown v. Board of Education | Supreme Court case in which segregated schools were ruled unconstitutional |
| Rosa Parks | Woman who helped start Montgomery bus boycott |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Leader of the civil rights movement |
| Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) | Civil rights organization |
| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) | Civil rights organization formed by students |
| sit-in | Protest tactic in which blacks occupied whites-only seats at lunch counters |
| freedom riders | Civil rights activists who tried to end segregation on national buses |
| James Meredith | African American who won enrollment to the all-white University of Mississippi |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Law that outlawed racial discrimination |
| Freedom Summer | Name of project to win voting rights for Southern blacks |
| Fannie Lou Hamer | Prominent voting rights activist |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Act that struck down state laws intended to keep blacks from voting |
| de facto segregation | Segregation by custom or practice |
| de jure segregation | Segregation by law |
| Malcolm X | African-American civil rights leader |
| Nation of Islam | Group headed by Elijah Muhammad |
| Stokely Carmichael | Leader of Black Power movement |
| Black Power | Movement that stressed black pride |
| Black Panthers | African-American group founded to combat police brutality |
| Kerner Commission | Commission that reported on race relations in America |
| Civil Rights Act of 1968 | Act that banned discrimination in housing |
| affirmative action | Program aimed at hiring or including minorities |
