| A | B |
|---|
| Segregation | the enforced separation of different racial groups |
| Integration | the intermixing or 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 | 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 |
