A | B |
Segregation | the enforced separation of different racial groups |
Integration | the intermixing and inclusion of people or groups |
Civil Disobiedence | the refusal to follow certain laws as a form of peaceful protest |
Boycott | the refusal to buy certain goods or use certain services |
Sit-in | protest in which people sit in one place and refuse to move until certain demands are met |
Brown v. Board of Education | Supreme Court ruled that segregation in schools and other public facilities was illegal |
Little Rock Nine | Black students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock |
Malcolm X and Black Power activists | person and group who reject integration and called for separation from whites |
Civil Rights Act 1964 | banned segregation in public places and outlawed segregation in public places |
Voting Rights Act 1965 | removed Reconstruction Era voting barriers for black Americans allowing for more black voters in the South |
March on Washington | took place in August 1963 because activists wanted Congress to support a civil rights bill |
President Kennedy & President Johnson | Chief Executives who supported Civil Rights legislation |
"Freedom Summer" (goal) | help African Americans in the South register to vote |
Jim Crow laws | Laws that enforced separation of races in public places in the South. |
Emmett Till | 14 year old boy's murder shows "race-hatred personified" as his mother said |
Freedom Riders (goal) | to desegregate interstate bus terminals |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | civil rights leader who first gain national attention during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, later (1963) would give his "I Have a Dream" speech |
Greensboro 4 | college students staged sit-in at Woolworth lunch counter |
Rosa Parks | NAACP member and activists whose actions started the Montgomery Bus Boycott |