| A | B |
|---|
| filibuster | tactic of long speeches to delay voting on Congressional bill |
| Civil Rights Act 1964 | banned public segregation & employment discrimination |
| Freedom Summer | massive effort to register voters in Mississippi 1964 |
| Fannie Lou Hamer | activist of MFDP at 1964 Democratic Convention |
| Voting Rights Act 1965 | banned literacy tests for voter registration |
| Twenty-fourth Admendment | banned poll taxes as voting requirement |
| Kerner Commission | attempted to determine cause of 1967 riots |
| Malcolm X | African American radical activist |
| Nation of Islam | religious sect advocated separation of races |
| black power | term coined by Stokley Carmichael |
| Black Panthers | symbol of young militant African Americans |
| March on Washington | peaceful demonstration known for "I have a dream" speech |
