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Foley Civil Rights
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Civil Disobedience | Refusal to obey an unjust law. |
| Boycott | Tactic that calls for people to refrain from purchasing a good or service until enough economic damage is done that a wrong can be remedied. |
| Sit-In | Tactic that calls for people to peacefully occupy a space they are legally not allowed to be in. |
| Freedom Ride | Tactic whereby a bus full of people moves from town to town committing sit-ins and other acts of civil disobedience. |
| Segregation | Separation of one group from another and enforced by law. |
| Discrimination | Treating one group differently based on a prejudice. |
| Prejudice | Judging something before you know the facts. |
| Birmingham, Alabama | The most segregated city in the South, target of Martin Luther King, Jr and the SCLC |
| Children's March | Arrest of thousands of young people in an effort to overwhelm the system after the city of Birmingham refused to integrate after a failed boycott by Martin Luther King, Jr |
| Ku Klux Klan | Terrorist organization established after Reconstruction to, by force or intimidation, keep freed slaves from exercising political rights |
| Sharecropping | System that had freed slaves borrowing land and seed from former slave owners, resulting in a never-ending cycle of debt and poverty |
| Jim Crow Laws | Black codes and laws set up throughout the South after Reconstruction to segregate the society |
| Plessy v Ferguson | Supreme Court Case that established the idea of "separate but equal" and provided the legal basis for segregation |
| Brown v Board of Education | Supreme Court Case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and ruled that "separate but equal" was unconstitutional |
| Reconstruction | Period after the Civil War when the South was supposed to be reconstructed as a society that would accept freedom for African Americans |
| 13th Amendment | Ended slavery |
| 14th Amendment | Defined citizenship |
| 15th Amendment | The right to vote shall not be abridged on account of skin color |
| Civil Rights Act 1964 | Outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, or heritage |