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| Brown v. Board of Education | overturned the ruling of "separate but equal" outlawing segregation in public facilties |
| Southern Christian Leadership Conference | created to help organize non-violent civil rights demonstration in the South |
| freedom riders | groups of young people who rode buses into the South in order to bring attention to the violation of the Supreme Courts ban on segregated bus terminals |
| Freedom Summer | included such events as the Freedom Rides and the march on Washington DC |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | ensured that African Americans would be granted protection by the federal government to register to vote and cast their ballots |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | federal law ending segregation in the South |
| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee | created to aid the civil rights movement in south, they focused on registering African American voters in the South. |
| Black Panthers | organization who promoted the use of violence as part of the Civil Rights Movement |
| United Farm Workers | organized to promote the rights of migrant workers |
| National Organization for Women | believed that workplace discrimination based upon sex should be eliminated |
| American Indian Movement | founded to promove the sovereignty of Native Americans in the U.S. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | established the policy of "separate but equal" in the U.S. |
