| A | B |
|---|
| Thurgood Marshall | NAACP attorney |
| Brown v.Board of Education | Court ruled segregation in public school was illegal |
| Little Rock Nine | nine black students who attended Central High School |
| Montgomery bus boycott | thousands of African-American who stopped riding the buses |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | 26 year old Baptist Minister |
| SCLC | Southern Christian Leadership Confernece |
| sit-in | demonstration where protesters sit down and refuse to leave |
| SNCC | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
| CORE | Congress of Racial Equality |
| Freedom Rides | black and white riders traveled together to segregated bus stations in the South |
| March on Washington | a massive demonstration for civil rights |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Act that banned segregation in public places |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Act to protect African Americans' voting rights |
| Great Society | Pres. Johnson's program of domestic reform |
| Black Power movement | Stokely Carmichael founded. |
| Malcolm X | helped inspire the Black Power movement |
| Cesar Chavez | formed the United Farm Workers |
| NOW | National Organization for Women |
| Shirley Chisholm | First African-American woman elected to US Congress |
| ERA | Equal Rights Amendment |
| NCAI | National Congress of American Indians |
| AIM | American Indian Movement |
| DIA | Disabled in Action |
