| A | B |
|---|
| Jackie Robinson | first African American in Major League Baseball |
| lasted more than one year | Montgumery bus boycott |
| Birmingham, AL | South's most segregated city |
| Civil Rights Act 1964 | protects against employment and race discrimination |
| Jim Crow laws | enforce strict segregation |
| CORE believed | in direct, nonviolent methods |
| NAACP | wins court cases against segregation |
| federal troops protect students | Little Rock, AR |
| Disagree, but not disobey | Pres. Kennedy response to desegration at University of Mississippi |
| University of Mississippi | college of James Meredith |
| forbids race discrimination | Civil Rights Act 1964 |
| Pres. L.B. Johnson | Southerner with undistinguished record in desegration matters |
