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HISTORY
hisory questions for the test tommorrow
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| segregation | The action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart. |
| Integration | The free association of people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds |
| NAACP | the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is a civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of "people of color." W. E.B. |
| Civil Rights | the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality. |
| Freedom Riders | were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 |
| Rosa parks | A black seamstress from Montgomery, Alabama, who, in 1955, refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus to a white person, as she was legally required to do. |
| Boycott | withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest. |
| brown vs. board of education | was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | The Supreme Court case, since overturned by Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which upheld the constitutionality of “separate, but equal facilities” based on race. |
| Martyr | a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs. |
| Black Panther Party | Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. |
| Watts riots | A group of violent disturbances in Watts, a largely black section of Los Angeles, in 1965. |
| MLK Jr. | An African-American clergyman and political leader of the twentieth century |
| Malcolm X | An African-American political leader of the twentieth century. |
| Sit ins | a form of protest in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met. |
| President Eisenhower | United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus |
| thurgood marshall | an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
| Identify three events or issues during the 1950’s and 1960’s that you think mark the most important milestones in the civil rights struggle. | 24th amendment passed, Bombing of Birmingham Church, Civil rights act passes |
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