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Civil Rights Names
Term | Definition |
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Little Rock Nine | first African American students to attend a newly desegregated school in a city in Arkansas |
Rosa Parks | instigated the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to sit in the back of the bus |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | leader of the SCLC and prominent voice of the nonviolent protest movement |
James Farmer | founder of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) |
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas | ruled segregation was wrong, there was no separate but equal |
Jim Crow Laws | made it legal to offer separate but equal services |