| A | B |
|---|
| Rosa Parks | seamstress and NAACP officer who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white man. She was arrested. |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Segregation | legally separating the races |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | great civil rights leader, preacher, and non-violence advocte |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | African Americans refused to ride the buses of Montgomery and filed various law suits |
| 381 | length of the Montgomery Bus Boycott |
| 1956 | when the Supreme Court outlawed bus segregation |
| car pools | how many were able to boycott the bus system in Montgomery |
| Linda Brown | 8 year old from Topeka, KS who was denied admission to the all-white elementary four blocks from her home |
| Brown II | Supreme Court issued to speed along desegregation in schools |
| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka | 1954 (5 cases) -Supreme Court struck down segregation in schooling was an unconstitutional violation of the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause |
| soul force | Martin Luther King, Jr. brand of non-violence: love, not obeying unjust laws, mass demonstrations, and resistance without the use of violence |
| SCLC | Southern Christian Leadership Conference - after bus boycott, ministers and leaders worked for civil rights using churches as their bases (1957) |
| SNCC | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (Started in North Carolina) |
| CORE | Congress for Racial Equality -started in 1942 in Chicago |
| sit in | African-Americans protesters sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until they were served. |
