| A | B |
|---|
| Thurgood Marshall | first African American on the Supreme Court |
| Brown v. Board of Education of Topek | stuck down separate but equal |
| Rosa Parks | challenged the segregation of public transportation in Montgomery, Alabama |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | minister and Civil Rights leader |
| SCLC | Southern Christian Leadership Conference founded by ML King Jr. |
| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) | national student protest group |
| sit-ins | protests in which African-Americans sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave in violation of the law |
| Brown v. Board of Education | said school segregation was illegal |
| freedom riders | historic bus trip across the South that hoped to provoke a violent reaction from white racists |
| James Meredith | first African American to the University of Mississippi |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | prohibited discrimination because of race, gender, religion or national origin |
| Freedom Summer | summer of 1964, CORE and SNCC worked to register voters in Mississippi |
| Fannie Lou Hamer | MFDP speaker at the 1964 Democratic convention |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | eliminated liteacy tests and allowed for federal oversight of local electoral officials |
| de facto segregation | segregation that exists in practice or custom |
| de jure | segregation by law |
| Malcom X | follower of Elijah Muhammud and the Nation of Islam |
| Stokely Carmichael | leader of SNCC, favored a militant approach to Civil Rights |
| Black Panthers | advocated self sufficiency and preached self defense |
| James Earl Ray | murdered Martin Luther King |
| Civil Rights Act of 1968 | ended discrimination in housing |
| Shirley Chisholm | ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972 |
| affirmative action | programs that make special efforts to hire or enroll groups that have suffered discrimination |
