Foley Civil Rights
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| Civil Disobedience | Refusal to obey an unjust law.
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| Boycott | Tactic that calls for people to refrain from purchasing a good or service until enough economic damage is done that a wrong can be remedied.
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| Sit-In | Tactic that calls for people to peacefully occupy a space they are legally not allowed to be in.
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| Freedom Ride | Tactic whereby a bus full of people moves from town to town committing sit-ins and other acts of civil disobedience.
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| Segregation | Separation of one group from another and enforced by law.
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| Discrimination | Treating one group differently based on a prejudice.
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| Prejudice | Judging something before you know the facts.
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| Birmingham, Alabama | The most segregated city in the South, target of Martin Luther King, Jr and the SCLC
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| Children's March | Arrest of thousands of young people in an effort to overwhelm the system after the city of Birmingham refused to integrate after a failed boycott by Martin Luther King, Jr
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| Ku Klux Klan | Terrorist organization established after Reconstruction to, by force or intimidation, keep freed slaves from exercising political rights
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| Sharecropping | System that had freed slaves borrowing land and seed from former slave owners, resulting in a never-ending cycle of debt and poverty
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| Jim Crow Laws | Black codes and laws set up throughout the South after Reconstruction to segregate the society
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| Plessy v Ferguson | Supreme Court Case that established the idea of "separate but equal" and provided the legal basis for segregation
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| Brown v Board of Education | Supreme Court Case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and ruled that "separate but equal" was unconstitutional
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| Reconstruction | Period after the Civil War when the South was supposed to be reconstructed as a society that would accept freedom for African Americans
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| 13th Amendment | Ended slavery
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| 14th Amendment | Defined citizenship
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| 15th Amendment | The right to vote shall not be abridged on account of skin color
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| Civil Rights Act 1964 | Outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, or heritage
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