| A | B |
|---|
| Segregation | to separate |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws of segregation |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | segregation legal - Separate But Equal |
| Racism | to discriminate based on race |
| Brown v. the Board of Education | ends segregation in public schools |
| Emmett Till | 14 year old boy murdered in Mississippi |
| Little Rock Nine | First group of African American students to attend Little Rocks Central High School |
| Lunch Counter Sit-ins | Activists sat at white lunch counters and refused to move |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | African Americans in Montgomery, AL refused to use public buses due to Jim Crow Laws |
| Freedom Riders | two buses of blacks and whites protesting segregation that were attacked in the south |
| Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | Civil Rights Activist who preached a non-violent approach |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Thurgood Marshall | Lawyer for NAACP who represented the Brown family in Brown v. the Board of Ed. - becomes the first african american supreme court justice |
| Malcolm X | Civil Rights activist who believe violence should be used when provoked |
| Poll Tax | fee charged to vote in political elections |
| 24th Amendment | ended poll tax |
| literacy tests | exams that african americans had to pass to vote |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | ended segregation in America |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | eliminated all discriminatory practices at the polling place (literacy tests) |
| Affirmative Action | policy giving minorities and women an advantage when seeking employment or admission to college |
| Freedom Summer | Northerners travel into the south in an attempt to register African Americans to vote |
| Loving v. Virginia | Supreme Court ruling that lifted the ban on interracial marriage |
