| A | B |
|---|
| Jim Crow laws | Laws made to segregate whites and blacks in the south |
| de facto segregation | separation of the races by custom |
| de jure segregation | separation of the races by law; goal if Civil Rights movement |
| NAACP | organization created in 1909 to end discrimination |
| boycott | to refuse to buy, use, or participate in (something) as a way of protesting |
| integration | to unite or combine groups |
| SCLC | organization formed by christian leaders against segregation |
| SNCC | organization formed by student leaders against segregation |
| civil disobedience | the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest. |
| Nation of Islam | religious movement founded in Detroit, Michigan, Malcolm X was a member |
| Great Society | LBJ's program to end poverty in the USA, (headstart, Medicaid, Medicare) |
| Affirmative Action | programs to help those groups that had been discriminated against in the past |
| Black Panthers | group founded by Seale and Newton to combat police brutality |
| white flight | whites with money leaving the cities for the suburbs |
| CORE | council for racial equality-fought discrimination |
| Little Rock Nine | group of students that integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Emmit Till | boy killed in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman |
| Thurgood Marshall | NAACP lawyer, led Brown case, became first black supreme court justice |
| Rosa Parks | arrested in Montgomery, AL for refusing to give up her seat |
| Martin Luther King, jr | young SCLC leader, led Montgomery bus boycott, became civil rights leader |
| James Meredith | integrated Ole Miss University;Gov. Barnett tried to keep him out |
| Stokely Carmichael | former SNCC member that came up with the phrase "Black Power" |
| Huey Newton & Bobby Seale | Founders of Black Panthers |
| Malcolm X | Civil Rights leader that advocated separation of the races and armed defense of rights, member of Nation of ISlam |
| James Earl Ray | person who assassinated MLK, jr |
| Sit-Ins | Taking seats in businesses and refusing to leave until served |
| Birmingham, AL | City where children marched and were attacked with dogs and firehoses. MLK write a letter frm Jail here |
| Bull Connor | Birmingham, AL Police Chief who used fire hoses and dogs against marchers |
| Eisenhower | President who sent the army to protect the little rock nine |
| L. B. Johnson | Signed Civil Rights Act '64, Voting Rights Act '65 |
| Gandhi | Used non-violence in India, Inspired MLK,jr |
| Plessy v Ferguson | 1986 Supreme Court Case, said "separate but equal" was legal |
| Brown v Board | 1954 Supreme Court case, overturned Plessy, schools MUST integrate |
| J. F. Kennedy | President who sent marshalls to protect J. Meredith, advocated Civil rights Bill |
| Freedom Summer | Movement in the south with the goal of african-american voter registration |
| Ernest Greene | First African American to graduate from Central High in Little Rock Arkansas |
