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s.s chapter 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| segregation | separation, especially of races |
| Civil Rights | Rights granted to all citizens |
| black codes | Laws passed by Southern states that limited the freedom of former slaves |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | 1896 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that separation of the races in public accommodations was legal |
| Jim Craw laws | laws meant to enforce separation of white and black people in public places in the south |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) | A civil rights organization. |
| infringe | to violate |
| Integrate | to open to people of all races and ethnic groups |
| Thurgood Marshall | NAACP legal counsel and the first African American Supreme Court Justice |
| Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka | 1954 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" education for black and white students was unconstitutional |
| Montgomery bus boycott | 1955 protest action to end segregation on buses in Montgomery, Alabama |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | An influential leader of civil rights era, assassinated in 1968 |
| Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) | Organization that coordinated nonviolent protests across the south |
| sit-in | Protests in which people sit in a place and refuse to move until their demands are met |
| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) | Organization created to give young people a greater role in the civil rights movement |
| Grassroots | Group of ordinary people who come together at a local even for a cause |
| activism | Direct action taken to support or oppose a social or political goal |
| Freedom Rides | Protests against segregation interstate busing in the South |
| Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) | Organization that planned freedom rides |
| March on Washington | huge civil rights demonstration in Washington, D.C, in 1963 |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Law banning segregation in public places and creating the Equal Employment Opportunity commission |
| Freedom Summer | 1964 voter-registration drive for southern blacks |
| Voting Rights Act | 1965 law banning literacy tests and other laws that kept blacks from registering to vote |
| Great Society | President Johnson's programs to help the poor,elderly,and women |
| Malcolm X | African American activist killed in 1965 |
| disenfranchised | people deprived of legal rights, especially the right to vote |
| Dolores Huerta | Mexican-American union organizer and negotiator |
| Cesar Chavez | Mexican-American union organizer and leader |
| National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) | Organization founded in 1944 to promote rights of Native Americans |
| Betty Friedan | Women's rights leader and author of The Feminine Mystique |
| National Organization for Women (NOW) | Organization founded in 1966 to get women good jobs and equal pay |
| Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) | Amendment proposed that would give equality of rights regardless of sex |
| Latinos | People in the U.S who trace their origins to Latin American countries and cultures |
| abridged | shortened |
| assimilate | to blend into society |
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