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Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Supreme Court decision that ended segregation in public schools | Brown v. Board of Education |
| A group of nine African American students who began the integration of the Little Rock, Arkansas public school system | Little Rock Nine |
| African American seamstress and civil rights activists who began the Montgomery bus boycott by refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus | Rosa Parks |
| A boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama public bus system to protest its policy of segregation | Montgomery Bus Boycott |
| Civil Rights leader who was committed to a nonviolent approach in bringing about the dramatic change of racial integration. He was assassinated in 1968 | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| A form of protest in which African Americans sat at a segregated lunch counter and requested service | Sit-ins |
| A group organized to protest U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War | Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) |
| A series of integrated bus rides through the South | Freedom Rides |
| A huge demonstration organized by MLK jr. to protest racial discrimination | March on Washington |
| A law that ended discrimination based on race or gender | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| A law that provided new powers to the federal government to protect African Americans rights | Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
| The 36th president of the United States became president after the assassination of JFK and led the nation through the CRM | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| President Lyndon B. Johnson's Legislative plan that included Civil Rights laws | Great Society |
| A social movement that called for African American power and independence | Black Power |
| To refuse to comply to unjust laws as a form of peaceful protest | Civil Disobedience |
| The forced, legal separation of people of different races in public places | Segregation |
| A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from getting their civil rights | Ku Klux Klan |
| President Lyndon Johnson’s plan that included civil rights laws | Great Society |
| An order issued, by Abraham Lincoln, in 1863 that freed slaves in Confederate states | Emancipation Proclamation |
| abolished slavery | 13th Amendment |
| gave blacks citizenship | 14th Amendment |
| gave black men the right to vote | 15th Amendment |
| The process of desegregating | Integration |
| putting a person to death, usually through mob violence, often by hanging | lynching |
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