social Studies Word Scramble
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Segregation | The separation of people from different races |
NAACP | National Association for Colored People |
Thurgood Marshall | Chief lawyer for NAACP |
Brown v. Board of Ed of Topeka, Kansas | Reached Supreme Court in Dec. 1952 Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to separate schoolchildren by race |
Integrating | Bringing races together |
Orval Faubus | Opposed integration |
Rosa Parks | Boarded a bus and sat in a white spot. She was African American. Arrested. |
Boycott | Refusal to use |
Civil disobedience | Refusal to obey laws that are considered unjust |
SCLC | Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
Jan. 1961 | John F. Kennedy becomes 35th president |
New Frontier | Group of proposals involving special programs |
November 22, 1963 | J.F.K. is assassinated |
Lyndon B. Johnson | Became next president |
Poverty line | minimum income needed to survive |
Medicare & Medicaid | Medicare helped pay for medical care for senior citizens. Medicaid helped poor people pay their hospital bills. |
Sit-in | Act of protesting by sitting down |
Interstate busses | Those that crossed state lines |
Malcolm X | Leader in the nation of Islam |
April 4, 1968 | Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated |
Feminists | Activists for women's rights |
Sandra Day O'Connor | First female justice of the Supreme Court |
LULAC | League of United Latin American Citizens |
NCAI | National Congress of American Indians |
Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 | Formally protected the constitutional rights of all native Americans |
AIM | American Indian Movement |
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