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L. Douglas Wilder,  | First African American to be elected a state governor in the United States. |
Arthur R. Ashe, Jr,  | First African American winner of a major men's tennis singles championship. |
Maggie L. Walker,  | First African American woman to become a bank president. |
| Desegregation | Stopping racial segregation |
| Integration | Full equality of all races in the use of public facilities. |
| Brown v. Board of Education | The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that "separate but equal" public schools were unconstitutional. |
| Massive Resistance | Virginia's government fought to "resist" the integration of public schools. |
Harry F. Byrd, Sr,  | Virginia senator (later governor) who led a Massive Resistance Movement against the integration of public schools. |
| Civil Rights Movement | Resulted in laws that made racial discrimination illegal. |
| The General Assembly | The legislative branch of the Virginia government (makes state laws). |
| the Senate and the House of Delegates | Two parts of the General Assembly, the lawmaking branch of the Virginia state government. |
| The governor | Heads the executive branch of the state government. |
| The executive branch (of the state government) | Makes sure that state laws are carried out. |
| The judicial branch (of the state government) | The state's court system - decides if laws are constitutional and if they are being broken. |
| Judicial, legislative, executive | The three branches of government in Virginia. |
| 18th and 19th century Virginia | A rural, agricultural society |
| 20th century Virginia | A more urban, industrialized society. |
| Roanoke | City that became a railroad center. |
| Railroads | Key to Virginia's growth after Reconstruction. |
| Tazewell County | Coal was discovered in this county (in southwestern Virginia) after the Civil War. |
| Unfair poll taxes and voting tests | Made to keep African Americans from voting. |
| Discrimination | An unfair difference in the treatment of people. |
| Segregation | The separation of people, usually based on race or religion. |
| "Jim Crow" Laws | Established segregation or separation of the races. |
| Reconstruction | The period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union. |
| Freedmen's Bureau | A government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for freed slaves and others in Virginia and the rest of the South. |
| Sharecropping | Freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner by promising to pay the owner with a share of the crop. |
| 1954 | The year the Supreme Court decided that "separate but equal" was unconstitutional |
