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| Thurgood Marshall | First African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice, he represented as a lawyer the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and fought racial segregation |
| Brown v. Board of Education | Supreme Court decision that ended segregation in public schools |
| Little Rock Nine | a group of nine African American students who began the integration of the Little Rock, Arkansas, public school system |
| Rosa Parks | African American seamstress and civil rights activist who began the Montgomery bus boycott by refusing to give up her seat on a segregated city bus |
| Montgomery bus boycott | a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama, public bus system to protest its policy of segregation |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | Civil rights leader who was committed to a nonviolent approach in bringing about the dramatic change of racial integration. He was assassinated in 1968 |
| sit-in | a form of protest in which African Americans sat at segregated lunch counters and requested service |
| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee | a group organized to promote civil rights for African Americans through nonviolent protests |
| John F. Kennedy | The 35th president of the United States, led the country through several cold war crises, but was assassinated in 1963 |
| Freedom Rides | a series of integrated bus rides through the South |
| March on Washington | a huge demonstration organized by Martin Luther King Jr. to protest racial discrimination |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | The 36th president of the United States, became president after the assassination of John Kennedy. Johnson led the nation through the civil rights movement, signing many antidiscrimination bills into law |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | a law that ended discrimination based on race or gender |
| Voting rights Act of 1965 | provided new powers to the federal government to protect African Americans' voting rights |
| Great Society | President Lyndon Johnson's legislative plan that included civil rights laws |
| Black Power | a social movement that called for African American power and independence |
| Malcolm X | African American civil rights leader who advocated using violence if necessary to secure equal rights. Originally a leader of the Nation of Islam, when he broke with the organization, three of its members assassinated him |
| Cesar Chavez | Social activist and founder of the United Farm Workers, a leader in the movement for Hispanic Americans' civil rights |
| United Farm Workers | a group organized to promote the interests of migrant farm workers, it eventually led to the Chicano movement |
| Betty Friedan | Author of the The Feminine Mystique, she pointed out women's dissatisfaction with traditional roles and became a leader of the women's rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s |
| National Organization for Women | a group that organized to promote the interests of women |
| Shirley Chisholm | First African American woman to be elected to Congress, as a Representative from New York |
| Equal Rights Amendment | a proposed amendment to the Constitution that would provide equal rights to women |
| Phyllis Schlafly | A leader of the conservative movement against the Equal Rights Amendment, she spoke out against the forces of feminism that emerged in the 1970s. |
| American Indian Movement | a civil rights group organized to promote the interests of Native Americans |
| Disabled in Action | a group organized to promote the intersts of people with disabilities |
