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OCS AH2 U7L1, N1
Civil Rights Movement
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Civil Rights Movement | Social movement where people wanted equality for all races |
| Segregation | Separating people of different races, classes, or ethnic groups |
| De jure segregation | Segregation by law |
| De facto segregation | Segregation by custom or practice |
| Brown vs. Board of Education | Separate public education was unfair |
| Thurgood Marshall | First Black American Supreme Court Justice |
| Integration | Process of ending segregation |
| Martin Luther King | Civil Rights leader who practiced civil disobedience |
| Rosa Parks | Helped start the Montgomery Bus Boycott |
| Little Rock Nine | First Black students to enroll at a white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Freedom Riders | Civil rights activists who wanted to end segregated buses |
| James Meredith | First Black to attend University of Mississippi |
| Civil Rights Acts of 1964 | Outlawed discrimination |
| Malcolm X | Civil Rights leader who supported self defense against violence |