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Civil Rights Names
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |