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Civil Rights era
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Minority | A group that is not the majority |
| JFK | John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| Lyndon B Johnson | JFK's vice president |
| Lee Harvey Oswald | Killed JFK |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Plessy vs Ferguson | Said separate but equal was ok |
| Brown vs Board of Ed. | Said segregation was illegal |
| Integrating | Mixing races |
| boycott | a refusal to use |
| Civil disobedience | refusal to obey unjust laws |
| Minimum needed to survive | Poverty line |
| Medicare & Medicaid | helped people pay hospital bills |
| Freedom riders | brought light to racist actions in south |
| Feminists | People for women's rights |
| AIM | American Indian movement |