| A | B |
|---|
| Brown v. Board | "separate but equal" is unconstitutional |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | "separate but equal" is constitutional |
| March on Washington | aim was to get Congress to pass Civil Rights Act |
| SCLC | organized by Martin Luther King to carry out non-violent resistance |
| SNCC | student non-violent coordinating committee |
| sit-ins | college students protest to end segregated lunch counters |
| Freedom Summer | after Voting Rights Act was passed college students carry out voter registration drives |
| Freedom Riders | want to integrate interstate busses across the South |
| Elizatbeth Eckford | one of Little Roch Nine- faced mob alone |
| Rosa Parks | started Montgomery Bus Boycott |
| Civil Rights Act | outlawed segregation |
| Voting Rights Act | outlawed literacy tests and all other laws that kept African Americans from voting |
| Core | planeed Freedom Rides and helped with sit-ins |
| Thurgood Marshall | NAACP lawyer in Brown case, later became Supreme Court Justice |
| Ernest Green | one of Little Rock Nine-senior who graduated |
| White Citizens Councils | organized to prevent desegregation |
| Orval Faubus | Governor of Arkansas who fought integration |
| Dwight Eisenhower | sent in 101st airborne division to aid in integration |
| Lyndon Johnson | signed both the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act |
| Malcolm X | advocated black separtist approach to Civil Rights |
| Melba Pattillo | wrote Warriors Don't Cry about her experiences as one of the Little Rock Nine |
| segregation | to separate as in racial segregation |
| civil disobedience | method of protesting advocted by Martin Luther King ex. bus boycott, sit-ins, freedom rides |
