| A | B |
|---|
| Thurgood Marshall | NAACP lawyer who argued Brown v. Board before the Supreme Court and won! |
| Rosa Parks | Refused to give up her bus seat for a white man |
| Southern Christian Leadership Conference | Organization of ministers and churches to plan nonviolent protests |
| SNCC- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee | A college activist movement that wanted faster change |
| sit-in | protesting at segregated lunch counters |
| Brown v. Board of Education 1954 | Supreme Court case that ended segregation in schools |
| Jim Crow | Laws that discriminated by separating races |
| Montgomery Bus boycott | Negroes refused to use public transportation |
| NAACP -National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | Organization that fought segregation through legal challenges in courts |
| Little Rock Central High School 1957 | Eisenhower orders the National Guard to protect nine black students |
| Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 | Supreme Court rules that "separate but equal" was legal. |
