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US history ch 18
The Civil Rights Movement 1945-1975
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| de jure segregation | segregation imposed by law |
| de facto segregation | segregation by unwritten custom of tradition |
| Thurgood Marshall | African American lawyer from Baltimore, Maryland |
| Brown v. Board of Education | attempt to segregate public education in Topeka, Kansas |
| Earl Warren | Chief Justice, opinion writer for Brown v. Board of Education |
| Civil Rights Act of 1957 | law that established a federal Civil Rights Commission |
| Rosa Parks | African American seamstress, boarded a bus in Montgomery, AL and said no |
| Montgomery bus boycott | 1955-1956; protest by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, against racial segregation in the bus system |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | baptist minister, prominent Civil Rights activist and leader |
| sit-in | form of protest where participants sit and refuse to move |
| Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee(SNCC) | grassroots movement founded in 1960 by young civil rights activists |
| freedom ride | 1961 protest by activists who rode buses through southern states to test their compliance with the ban on segregation on interstate buses |
| James Meredith | Air Force veteran who enrolled at Ole Miss |
| Medgar Evers | instrumental in getting Meredith enrolled at Ole Miss |
| March on Washington | 1963 demonstration in which more than 200,000 people rallied for economic equality and civil rights |
| filibuster | tactic by which senators give long speeches to hold up legislative business |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | outlawed discrimination in public places and employment based on race, religion, or national origin |
| Freedom Summer | 1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi |
| Fannie Lou Hamer | one of MFDP's leaders, gave powerful testimony |
| Voting Rights Act | law that banned literacy tests and empowered the federal government to oversee voter registration |
| Twenty-fourth Amendment | constitutional amendment that banned the poll tax as a voting requirement |
| Kerner Commission | group set up to investigate the causes of race riots in American cities in the 1960s |
| Malcolm X | African American radical |
| Nation of Islam | African American religious organization founded in 1930 that advocated separation of the races |
| black power | movement in the 1960s that urged African Americans to use their collective political and economic power to gain equality |
| Black Panthers | organization of militant African Americans founded in 1966 |
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