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| Thurgood Marshall | Supreme Court Justice (Chief) - was a champion for African Americans because he won so many cases |
| Brown vs. Brown Education | Seperate but Equal, is ILLEGAL! |
| Rosa Parks | didn't get up for a white man on a bus and got thrown in jail for it....was a seamstress and a NAACP officer- started the bus boycotts |
| Dr. Martin Luther King | Helped lead 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 Non-violent Coordinating Committee | (SNCC)-an organization formed in 1960 to coordinate sit-ins and other protests and to give young blacks a larger role in the civil rights movement |
| sit-ins | a form of demonstration used by African Americans to protest discrimination used by African Americans to protest discrimination; in which the protestors 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 segregation |
| James Meredith | an air force Vetern, won a federal court case that allowed him to go to a white University in Mississippi |
| Civil Rights Act of 1954 | a law that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin, or religion in public places and in most workplaces |
| Freedom Summer | a 1964 project to register African Americans in Mississippi |
| Robert Moses | a former New York City school teacher-quit his job and joined SNCC in 1961-led voter project in Mississippi- led the Freedom Summer |
| Fannie Lou Hamer | won the honor of speaking for the MFDP at the convention- she faced violence, and STILL registered to vote! |
| 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 |
| de facto segregation | racial seperation established by practice and custom, not by law |
| de jure segregation | racial seperation established by law |
| Malcolm X | a leader that thought that African-Americans should take complete control of their communities, livelihoods, and culture. |
| Nation of Islam | a religious group, popularly known as the Black Muslims, founded by Elijah Muhammad to promote black sepratism and the Islamic Religion |
| Stokely Carmichael | part of SNCC- decided to lead their followers in a march along with Martin Luther King Jr., and Floyd McKissick |
| Black Power | a slogan---first used in the 1940s and revivedby Stokely Carmichael in the 1960s-that encouraged African-American pride and political and social leadership |
| Black Panthers | a militant African-American political organization formed in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to fight police brutality and to provide services in the ghetto |
| Kerner Commission | a group that was appointed by President Johnson to study the causes of the 1965 Watts uprising and that recommended the elimination of de facto segregation in American society |
| Civil Rights Act of 1968 | a law that banned discrimination in housing |
