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| Assassinate | to kill an important person, usually for political reasons |
| Brown v. Board of Education | an important 1954 Supreme Court case in which the court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. |
| brutality | great cruelty or physical violence. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | a federal law that allowed for federal action against segregation in public spaces, facilities and employment. |
| Malcolm X | U.S. black nationalist leader and Muslim minister was active in the mid-20th century. |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | American minister and leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 60s. |
| pacifist | a person who doesn't believe in using war and violence to solve problems. |
| race riot | violence that breaks out because of tension between racial groups. |
| Rosa Parks | American Civil Rights Activist who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery Alabama in 1955, which was the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Federal legislation signed by President Johnson to overcome state and local policies that prevented African Americans from voting as was their right under the 15th Amendment (1870). |
