Chapter 21 Word Scramble
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| Term | Description |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | 1896 Supreme Court decision that segregation was legal as long as the separate facilities provided for blacks were equal to those provided to whites. |
| Jim Crow System | Statutes, beginning in the 1890s, the required segregation of public services by race. |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | 34th president who promoted business and continued social programs. |
| Brown vs. Board of Education | 1954 Supreme Court case in which racial segregation in public schools was outlawed. |
| Integration | Process of bringing people of different races together. |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | Protest in 1955-56 by African Americans against racial segregation in the bus system on Montgomery, Alabama. |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | African American civil rights leader from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968; used nonviolent means such as marches, boycotts, and legal challenges to win civil rights |
| Little Rock Crisis | A school in which 6 African Americans were not welcomed and the location of an important protest. |
| Sit-ins | Form of protest in which protesters seat themselves and refuse to move. |
| Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) | Founded in 1960, a student civil rights organization and an offshoot of the SCLC. |
| John F. Kennedy | Passed civil rights laws. |
| Integration of Ole Miss | A large stepping stone and important mark for integration. |
| Birmingham Confrontation | A protest which was caught on cameras and made Americans realize the seriousness of the civil rights movement. |
| March on Washington | 1963 civil rights demonstration in Washington, D.C., in which protesters called for "jobs and freedom". Also where King made his famous speech. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Law that made demonstration illegal in a number of areas, including voting, schools, and jobs. |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Law aimed at reducing the barriers that prevented African Americans from voting, in part by increasing the federal government's authority to register voters. |
| Nation of Islam | Organization, also called the Black Muslims, dedicated to black separation and self-help. |
| Malcom X | African American leader during the 1950s and 1960s; eloquent spokesperson for African American self-sufficiency; assassinated in 1965. |
| Stokely Carmichael | (blank) |
| Black Power Movement | African American movement seeking unity and self-reliance. |
| De Jure Segregation | Racial segregation created by law. |
| De Facto Segregation | Separation caused by social conditions such as poverty. |
| Rosa Parks | Civil rights worker whose arrest in 1955 touched off the Montgomery bus boycott. |
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