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1960s Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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John F. Kennedy | President of the US from 1961 - 1963 who believed in the Civil Rights Movement |
Jim Crow Laws | A set of laws making segregation legal |
segregation | separate, apart |
Rosa Parks | A woman arrested for not giving up her seat to a white person on a segregated bus |
boycott | refusing to participate or support a business |
sit-in | a peaceful protest where black men sat at a whites only lunch counter |
integration | mixing, combining, bringing together |
freedom riders | people from the north and south who helped with demonstrations and protests for civil rights |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | the most well-know civil rights activist in the 1960s |
equality | same rights for all people |
March on Washington | a peaceful march/protest in Washington DC where MLK gave his "I Have a Dream" speech |
Lyndon B. Johnson | became president of the US after Kennedy's assassination |
discrimination | when you treat someone differently because of his or her race, gender, or religion |
Bloody Sunday | a civil rights protest in Selma, AL that turned very violent |
Vietnam War | a war in Vietnam from 1955 - 1975 that the US became involved in to avoid the spread of Communism |
draft | forcing someone to join the military |
National Organization for Women | a women's rights group that started in the 1960s |
hippies | young people who practiced "free love" and believed in personal choice and less government control |