| A | B |
|---|
| Segregation | forced separation, oftentimes by race. |
| Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 Supreme Court ruling that in segregation in public schools. |
| Dr. Martin Luther King | Baptist minister, that supports non-violent protests as a means of obtaining equality for African Americans. |
| Civil Disobedience | non-violent protest |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | 1955-1956 protest by African Americans in Montegomery Alabama against racial segregation in the bus system. |
| SNCC | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, grass roots civil rights organization founded in the 1960s by young civil rights activitist with the goal of obtaining equality. |
| Freedom Ride | 1961 protest by activists who rode buses through southern states to test their compliance with the ban on segregation on interstate buses. |
| civil rights act of 1964 | outlawed discrimination in public places and employment based on race, religion, or national orgin. |
| Freedom summer | 1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi. |
| Voting RIghts Act of 1964 | Law that banned literacy tests and empowered the federal government to oversee voter registration. |
| Black Power | movement in the 1960s that urged African Americans to use their collective political and economic power to gain equality. |
| Bay of Bigs | 1961 failed invasion of Cuba by a CIA-led force of Cuban exiles. |
| Cuban Missle Crisis | 1962 conflict between the US and the Soviet Union resulting from the Soviet installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba. |
| Berlin Wall | dividing wall built by East Germany in 1961 to isolate West Berlin from Communist-contolled East Berlin. |
