| A | B |
|---|
| de jure segregation | racial separation enforced by law |
| de facto segregation | racial separation by unwritten custom or tradition |
| Thurgood Marshall | African-American attorney who led legal challange against segregation |
| Earl Warren | Chief Justice of Supreme Court |
| Civil Rights Act 1957 | first civil rights bill since Civil War |
| Rosa Parks | refused to give up bus seat to white person |
| Montgomery bus boycott | boycott by blacks of buses lasted a year |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | non-violent civil rights leader |
| sit-in | protest method of sitting and refusing to move |
| SNCC | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
| freedom ride | African American bus ride though South |
| James Meredith | Veteran who tried to attend University of Mississippi |
| Medgar Evers | activist who supported James Meredith |
| NAACP | National Association Advancement Colored People |
