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| segregation | The action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart.
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| Integration | The free association of people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds
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| NAACP | the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is a civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of "people of color." W. E.B.
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| Civil Rights | the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.
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| Freedom Riders | were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961
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| Rosa parks | A black seamstress from Montgomery, Alabama, who, in 1955, refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus to a white person, as she was legally required to do.
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| Boycott | withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest.
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| brown vs. board of education | was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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| Plessy vs. Ferguson | The Supreme Court case, since overturned by Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which upheld the constitutionality of “separate, but equal facilities” based on race.
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| Martyr | a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs.
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| Black Panther Party | Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.
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| Watts riots | A group of violent disturbances in Watts, a largely black section of Los Angeles, in 1965.
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| MLK Jr. | An African-American clergyman and political leader of the twentieth century
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| Malcolm X | An African-American political leader of the twentieth century.
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| Sit ins | a form of protest in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met.
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| President Eisenhower | United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany
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| Montgomery Bus Boycott | Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus
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| thurgood marshall | an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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| Identify three events or issues during the 1950’s and 1960’s that you think mark the most important milestones in the civil rights struggle. | 24th amendment passed, Bombing of Birmingham Church, Civil rights act passes
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