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Civil Rights
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Civil Rights Movement | The struggle of African Americans for equal rights in the 1950's and 1060's |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | The Supreme Court ruled that the "separate-but-equal" standard was constitutional |
| Brown v. Board of Education | The Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were "inherently unequal" |
| Thurgood Marshall | The first Africa American on the Supreme Court; he was an NAACP attorney |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | A leader of the Civil Rights Movement who believed in non-violence and passive resistance to unjust laws as a way to bring change |
| Rosa Parks | Began a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 by refusing to surrender her seat on the bus to a white passenger |
| Orval Faubus | Governor of Arkansas who favored segregation and delayed the implementation of Brown v. Board of Education |
| Lester Maddox | A restaurant owner in Georgia who threatened violence to African Americans seeking to enter his white only restaurant. |
| George Wallace | Alabama Governor who in 1963 stood and the entrance and blocked two African American students from entering |
| Civil Rights Act | (1964) prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, or ethnic origin in hotels, restaurants, and all places of employment doing business with the federal government or across state lines |
| Affirmative Action | President Johnson signed an Executive Order requiring employers with federal contracts to take positive steps to raise the number of their minority employees to correct past imbalances |
| Billy Graham | A famous Christian preacher and spiritual advisor to several U.S. Presidents who became an outspoken opponent of segregation |
| Twenty-Fourth Amendment | (1964) eliminated poll taxes in federal elections |
| Selma Marches | A march in Alabama to demand the vote for African Americans; the demonstrators were attacked, prompting President Johnson to introduce a voting rights bill. |
| Voting Right Act of 1965 | Ended poll taxes, suspended literacy tests required to vote, led to a substantial increase in the number of African American voters |
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