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UShist 10.1 & 2
Quiz practice
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Rosa Parks | did not give up her seat to a white person leading to a bus boycott |
| Earl Warren | Chief justice of the Supreme Court from 1953-1969 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | founder and first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. |
| nonviolent protesters | allowed themselves to be attacked by violent white opposition to increase pressure to change |
| reconstruction | During the late 1800s, the Supreme Court reversed many civil rights that African Americans had gained during: |
| Montgomery, AL | Where a bus boycott was held in 1954 |
| Little Rock, AR | The army was called here in 1957 to protect nine black students attending Central High School |
| 14th Amendment | guarantees all citizens the equal protection of the law. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | established the "separate but equal" doctrine that allowed legal segregation. |
| Brown v. Board of Education | ruled that "in the field of education, separate is inherently unequal." |
| sit-in | type of protest where blacks used the white-only lunch counters to prove a point. |