click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
social Studies
Social Studies Unit 29
| Segregation | The separation of people from different races |
| NAACP | National Association for Colored People |
| Thurgood Marshall | Chief lawyer for NAACP |
| Brown v. Board of Ed of Topeka, Kansas | Reached Supreme Court in Dec. 1952 Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to separate schoolchildren by race |
| Integrating | Bringing races together |
| Orval Faubus | Opposed integration |
| Rosa Parks | Boarded a bus and sat in a white spot. She was African American. Arrested. |
| Boycott | Refusal to use |
| Civil disobedience | Refusal to obey laws that are considered unjust |
| SCLC | Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
| Jan. 1961 | John F. Kennedy becomes 35th president |
| New Frontier | Group of proposals involving special programs |
| November 22, 1963 | J.F.K. is assassinated |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Became next president |
| Poverty line | minimum income needed to survive |
| Medicare & Medicaid | Medicare helped pay for medical care for senior citizens. Medicaid helped poor people pay their hospital bills. |
| Sit-in | Act of protesting by sitting down |
| Interstate busses | Those that crossed state lines |
| Malcolm X | Leader in the nation of Islam |
| April 4, 1968 | Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated |
| Feminists | Activists for women's rights |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | First female justice of the Supreme Court |
| LULAC | League of United Latin American Citizens |
| NCAI | National Congress of American Indians |
| Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 | Formally protected the constitutional rights of all native Americans |
| AIM | American Indian Movement |