| Question | Answer |
| SCLC | Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Civil Rights group created by King and other ministers |
| Freedom Rides | designed to force integration of interstate busing |
| Malcolm X | significant leader of the Nation of Islam who was assassinated in 1965 |
| 15th Amendment | granted black men the right to vote, but was denied to many due to discriminatory practices in the South |
| Little Rock Nine | nickname of the group of students who integrated Central High School |
| Civil disobedience | breaking a law that you feel is unjust |
| Thurgood Marshall | chief lawyer for the NAACP who became the first African American Supreme Court Justice |
| Emmett Till | young boy from Chicago who was murdered in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman |
| James Meredith | first to integrate Ole Miss |
| SNCC | Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee - youth led Civil Rights group |
| freedom summer | designed to get blacks registered and voting |
| MLK | Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights leader who believed in nonviolent protests |
| Great Migration | movement of many blacks from the south to the north in the hopes of better jobs and less racism |
| Rosa Parks | her refusal to give her seat up led to a year long bus boycott |
| Children's Campaign | youth took to the streets of Birmingham to protest racism, many were arrested and others had fire hoses turned on them |
| John Lewis | one of the youth leaders of SNCC who became a congressman from Georgia |
| March on Washington | 250,000 + people attended to influence Civil Rights Legislation, it was at this event that King delivered his famous "I have a Dream" speech |
| Ruby Bridges | first to integrate elementary school in New Orleans |
| Plessy v Ferguson | Supreme Court case that ruled separate but equal was legal |
| Brown v Board of Educ | Supreme Court case that ruled segregation has no place in public education |
| Jackie Robinson | broke the color barrier in baseball |
| Eugene Connor | racist police chief of Birmingham, Alabama |
| Voting Rights Act | 1965 provided federal power to fight discrimination in registration and election procedures |
| Jim Crow Law | segregation laws |
| Bloody Sunday | marchers were beaten with billy clubs and tear gas as they attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery |
| Fannie Lou Hamer | arrested and beaten for attempting to register to vote, later became a leader in the voting rights campaign |
