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| Sit-ins | Demonstration in which protesters sit down in a location and refuse to leave |
| "I Have a Dream" | Famous speech given by Martin Luther King, Jr. during a march on Washington, D.C. in 1963 |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court case that established the separate-but-equal doctrine for public facilities |
| Brown v. Board of Education | Supreme Court ruling that declared that segregation in public schools is illegal; overturned the separate but equal doctrine established in 1896 by Plessy v. Ferguson |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Civil Rights leader who used passive resistance against segregated facilities |
| Rosa Parks | an African American woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger and was arrested/ this led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | She headed the Commission on the Status of Women in 1961 to work for women’s rights |
| Freedom Rides | Bus trips by civil rights workers through several southern states in which protesters challenged illegal bus segregation |
| NAACP | Group that pursues the goals of economic, educational, and social equality for African Americans that expanded during the Civil Rights Movement/ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Law banning segregation in public places and prohibiting employers, unions, and universities from discriminating on the basis of color, sex, religion, and national origin |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Law that protected ALL citizens’ right to vote |
| National Organization for Women(NOW) | Group formed in 1966 by Betty Friedan and other feminists to increase women’s political power |
| Equal Rights Amendment | Proposed constitutional amendment that would guarantee women’s rights by prohibiting discrimination based on sex; passed by Congress in 1972 but never ratified by enough states to become a constitutional amendment |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | African American boycott of the buses in Montgomery, Alabama which led to the changing of discriminatory bus rules |
