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| prejudice | A negative opinion formed without proof. |
| Freedom Summer | A project set up in 1964 by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) where hundreds of college students went to Mississippi to help register African American voters. |
| civil rights | The individual rights of all citizens to be treated equally under the law. |
| Plessy Decision | A Supreme Court decision in 1896 which meant that separate railcars and other segregated facilities were legal if they were of equal quality. |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; an organization, founded in 1909 by both blacks and whites, whose goal is to fight prejudice and discrimination. |
| Thurgood Marshall | 1907-1993; Civil rights lawyer who helped end segregation in public schools in 1954 (Brown versus Board of Education). He was also the first African American Supreme Court justice from 1967 to 1991. |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | A protest from 1955-1956; hundreds of African Americans refused to ride the buses as a form of protest against segregation in transportation. |
| Jo Ann Robinson | 1912-1992; Teacher, civil rights worker, and organizer of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. She led an organization called Women’s Political Council, or WPC. |
| Rosa Parks | 1913-2005; Civil rights leader who fought segregation on city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. She refused to give up her seat to a white person and is known as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.” |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1929-1968; Baptist minister and major civil rights leader during the 1950s and 1960s. He gave a well-known speech during the march on Washington, DC in 1963. He was assassinated in 1968. |
| John F. Kennedy | 1917-1963; The 35th President of the United States from 1961 to 1963; he was the youngest person elected President. He increased efforts to get a new civil rights law passed by the Congress. |
| Greensboro | A city in North Carolina where college students protested the segregated lunch counters in the coffee shops and restaurants in 1960. |
| segregation | The separation of people, usually based on race or religion. |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson | 1908-1973; The 36th President of the United States from 1963-1969. He signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which made segregation illegal in public places. He also signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. |
| discrimination | An unfair difference in the treatment of people. |
