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| Thurgood Marshall | A civil rights activist and the first ever African American Supreme Court justice. |
| Brown v. Board of Education | A 1954 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that "seperate but equal" education for black and white students was unconstitutional. |
| Rosa Parks | An NAACP member arrested on a bus for refusing to give up her seat to a white man, leading to bus boycotts by the African American community. |
| Dr. Martain Luther King Jr. | Pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, founder of the SCLC, and a major leader in the civil rights movement. |
| Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) | An organization formed in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders to work for civil rights through nonviolent means. |
| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commitee | An organization formed in 1960 to coordinate sit-ins and other protests and to vie young blacks a larger role in the civil rights movement. |
| Sit-in | A form of demonstration use by African Americans to protest discrimination, in which the proestors sit down in a segregated business and refuse to leave until they are served. |
| Freedom rider | One of the civil rights activists who rode buses through the South in the early 1960s to challenge sergregation. |
| James Meredith | An air force veteran who won a federal court case that allowed him to enroll in the all-white University of Mississippi. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | A law that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin, or religion in the public places and most workplaces. |
| Freedom Summer | A 1964 project to register African American voters in Mississippi. |
| Robert Moses | A former New York City school teacher who joined SNCC and led the voter project in Mississippi. |
| Fannie Lou Hamer | A woman who was brutally beaten for attempting to register to vote, who spoke on behalf of the MFDP in hopes to unseat Mississippi's regualr party delegates at the Deomcratic National Convention. |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | A law that made it easier for African Americans to register to vote by eliminating discriminatory literacy tests and authorizing federal examiners to enroll voters denied at the local level. |
