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| Discrimination | unfair treatment
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| segregation | the separation of people of different races
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| civil | citizens as individuals
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| integrate | bring races together
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| boycott | a refusal to use
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| civil disobedience | refusal to obey laws that are considered unjust
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| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Wanted to insure that the political, social, and economic, rights to everyone and get rid of racial hatred and descrimination.
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| Thurgood Marshall | chief lawyer for the NAACP, he challenged the idea of seperate but equal.
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| Brown vs. Board of Education | reversed Plessy vs. Ferguson saying "separate but equal" was unconstitutional.
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| Rosa Parks | Civil Rights activist that refused to give up her seat on the bus
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| Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | main leader of the civil rights movement
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| Poverty Line | the minimum income needed to live
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| Medicaid | provides health and medical assistance to low-income families
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| Medicare | established a health insurance program for all elderly people financed through the social security system
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| John F. Kennedy | 35th President
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| New Frontier | federal aid for education, federal aid for the poor, civil rights legislation
Kennedy's social reforms
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| Lyndon B. Johnson | 36th President
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| Great Society | Johnson's programs to reduce poverty, programs to rebuild decaying cities, legislation, to improve education and promote civil rights
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| Job Corps | trained young people who were seeking work
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| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | banned discrimination against African Americans in employment, voting, and public places.
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| Sit In | the act of protesting by sitting down
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| SNCC | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commitee
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| Robert Kennedy | JFK's brother , Us attorney general
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| James Meredith | University of Mississippi's first African American student enrolled
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| George Wallace | Governor of Alabama
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| Medgar Evers | Mississippi state field secretary for NAACP
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| Malcom X | leader of the Nation of Islam, criticized the civil rights goal of integration, later he changed his ideas and called for a society where there could exist a white-black brotherhood.
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| Feminist | activists for women 's rights
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| National Organization for Women | Now fought for equal rights for women in all aspects of life - jobs, education, and marriage
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| Equal Rights Amendment | ERA- stated that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the US or by any state on account of sex."
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| Sandra Day O'Connor | 1st female justice of the Supreme Court
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| Cesar Chavez | leader that organized thousands of farm workers into the United Farm Workers Association
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| American Indian Movement | AIM- worked for equal rights and improved living conditions for Indians
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