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| Betty Friedan | Wrote "The Feminine Mystique," describing the unique struggles of women an began the modern Feminist Movement. |
| Black Panthers | Paramilitary group who used show of violence and open carry of guns to promote their demand for equal Civil Rights |
| "I Have A Dream" | MLK's speech that told what he hoped the Civil Rights fight would produce; a world which all are judged not "by the cold of their skin but by the content of their character" |
| "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" | MLK letter explains his view that Blacks could no longer wait for Civil Rights, but should fight through non-violence and civil disobedience. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1957 and 1964 | Legislation that prohibited discrimination on account of race in hiring and the workplace |
| Title IX | Prohibited discrimination based on gender in schools and education programs, especially sports |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Prohibited the use of literacy tests when registering citizens to vote |
| Affirmative Action | Kennedy's plan to increase minority representation in colleges, professions, and businesses. |
| George Wallace | Alabama governor and segregationist who opposed the integration of the University of Alabama |
| Orval Faubus | Arkansas governor and segregationist who opposed the integration of Little Rock's Central High School |
| Lester Maddox | Georgia governor and segregationist |
| Congressional block of Southern Democrats | Democrats in the House of Representatives who opposed Civil Rights legislation during the 50s and 60s. |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | Court ruling that "separate but equal" is okay; legalized segregation |
| Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas | Overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson, and established that "separate is not equal." Began school integration. |
| Mendez vs. Westminster | Decided that the segregation of Mexican American children without specific law is unconstitutional. |
| Hernandez vs. Texas | Mexican Americans cannot be excluded from the jury commission that selects juries |
| Delgado vs. Bastrop ISD | Declared segregation of Mexican American children in Texas schools illegal |
| Edgewood ISD vs. Kirby | States must revise their school funding system to be equitable in some cases taking from the wealthy districts and giving to property poor districts |
| Sweat vs. Painter | ruled the 14th amendment's equal protection clause allowed African American Herman Sweat to attend UT Law School, which was all-White. |
| Tinker vs. Des Moines | defined the constitutional rights of students in US public schools. The Tinker test is still used by courts to determine whether a school's disciplinary actions violate students' first amendment rights |
| Wisconsin vs. Yoder | the case in which the US Supreme Court found that Amish children could not be placed under compulsory education past 8th grade. The parents' fundamental right to freedom of religion outweighed the state's interest in educating its children |
