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| civil disobedience | the refusal to comply with certain laws as a peaceful or nonviolent form of protest |
| Brown vs. Board of Education (of Topeka Kansas) | Court ruled that separate schools for blacks and whites is unconstitutional; that "separate but equal" is inherently unequal. It desegregated school and allowed for integration. |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | Rosa Parks arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white man triggers a boycott to end city bus segregation; a form of nonviolent protest (civil disobedience) |
| Lunch Counter Sit-Ins | 4 Black college students in Greensboro, NC sat at a "whites only" lunch counter. They weren't served but this form of nonviolent protest (civil disobedience) spread to other cities quickly |
| Freedom Rides | Black and white riders bussed together to protest segregation on long-distance routes. In Alabama, the riders were attacked and nearly killed despite this form of nonviolent protest. |
| March on Washington | About 250,000 people gathered to rally for civil rights. In the next 2 years Congress passed laws to end legal discrimination showing how effective marching as a nonviolent form of protest could be. |
| Selma March | Police attacked more than 600 peaceful protesters (civil disobedience) as they began a 54 mile march from Selma to Montgomery in an effort to gain voter equality. |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | 1896 Supreme Court ruling that said :separate but equal facilities" were constitutional. This created legal segregation in the Jim Crow South. |
| segregation | the separation of a people based on race |
| integration | another term for desegregation |
| sit-in | a form of peaceful protest in which people sit in place and refuse to move until their demands are met |
| Voting Rights Act | law passed by Congress that banned state laws intended to keep blacks from voting |
| Civil Rights Act 1964 | law passed by Congress that outlawed racial segregation in the U.S. |
| CORE | Civil Rights Group (Congress of Racial Equality) that organized the Freedom Rides |
| SNCC | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee that staged sit-ins |
| Baby Boom | increase in population following WWII |
