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Preble SS11: Ch 28
Chapter 28
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Segregation | separation, especially of races |
| Civil Rights | rights granted to all citizens |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | 1896 case in which the Supreme court ruled that separation of the races in public accommodations was legal |
| Jim Crows Laws | laws meant to enforce separation of white and black people in public places in the south |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored people; a civil rights organization |
| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka | 1954 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" education for black and white students was unconstitutional |
| Integrate | to open to people of all races or ethnic groups |
| Montgomery bus boycott | 1955 protest action to end segregation on buses in Montgomery, Alabama |
| Sit-in | protest in which peple sit in a place and refuse to move until their demands are met |
| Rosa Parks | woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus to the white people. She was arrested, and this event would spark a movement that began to tear down segregation in America |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | an influential leader of the civil rights era |
| Thurgood Marshall | NAACP legal counsel and the first African American Supreme Court Justice |
| John Kennedy | US president from 1961 - 1963 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | US president from 1963 - 1969 |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | law banning segregation in public places and creating the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
| Disenfranchised | people deprived of legal rights, especially the right to vote |
| Freedom Rides | protests against segregation on interstate busing in the South |
| Freedom Summer | 1964 voter-registration drive for southern blacks |
| Great Society | President Johnson's programs to help the poor, elderly, and women |
| March on Washington | huge civil rights demonstration in Washington DC in 1963 |
| Voting Rights Act | 1965 law banning literacy tests and other laws that kept blacks from registering to vote |
| Malcolm X | African-American activist killed in 1965 |
| Betty Friedan | women's rights leader and the author of The Feminine Mystique |
| Cesar Chávez | Mexican-American union organizer and leader |
| Dolores Huerta | Mexican American union organizer and negotiator |
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