| A | B |
|---|
| segregation | the separation or isolation of a race, or group |
| integrate | to end separation of different races and bring equal membership in society |
| boycott | to refuse to buy items from a particular country; to refuse to use in order to show disapproval or force acceptance of ones terms |
| civil disobedience | refusal to obey laws that are considered unjust as a nonviolent way to press for changes |
| poverty line | a level of personal or family income below which one is classified as poor according to government standards |
| Medicare | a social program that helps pay for medical care for the elderly |
| Medicaid | a social program that gives the states money to help those who cannot afford to pay for their hospital bills |
| sit-in | the act of occupying seats or sitting down on the floor of an establishment as a form of organized protest |
| interstate | across state lines; connecting or existing between two or more states |
| feminist | a person who advocates or is active in promoting women's rights |
| Latino | American who has come to the U.S. from or is descended from people who came from Latin America or Spain |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People worked on behalf of African Americans |
| Thurgood Marshall | the chief lawyer for the NAACP |
| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas | Supreme Court unanimously ruled it was unconstitutional to separate schoolchildren by race |
| Rosa Parks | sat in a bus seat in the section reserved for whites and refused to move to the rear |
| Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | a young Baptist minister who spoke at a boycott meeting |
| John F. Kennedy | ran for the presidency in 1960 promising new programs to get the country moving again |
| New Frontier | a program of social reforms including federal aid for education and the poor |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | became president after Kennedy's assassination |
| Great Society | a set of programs to reduce poverty, promote equality, improve education, and rebuild decaying cities |
| Job Corps | a program to train young people seeking work |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | act barred discrimination against African Americans in employment, voting, and public places and forbade discrimination not only by race but also by gender, religion, and national origin |
| Ella Baker | a guiding spirit behind SNCC and one of its organizers |
| Robert Kennedy | the United States attorney general |
| James Meredith | the first African American student to enroll in University of Mississippi by order of a federal court |
| George Wallace | vowed he would stand in the schoolhouse door to block the integration of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa |
| Medgar Evers | the state field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi who was murdered |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | gave the federal government the power to force local officials to allow African Americans to register to vote |
| Malcolm X | an important voice for some African American, a leader in the Nation of Islam |
| National Organization for Women | fought for equal rights for women |
| Equal Rights Amendment | stated that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by and state on account of sex |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
| Cesar Chavez | organized thousands of migrant farm workers into the United Farm Workers (UFW) |
| American Indian Movement | worked for equal rights and improved living conditions |
| discriminate | to treat unfairly |
| civil | relating to citizen as individuals |
| assign | appoint |
| consist | make up of |
| register | to enroll |
| emerge | to rise up |
| aspect | category, feature, or part |
| diverse | differing from one another |
