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Term | Definition |
Discrimination | unfair treatment |
segregation | the separation of people of different races |
civil | citizens as individuals |
integrate | bring races together |
boycott | a refusal to use |
civil disobedience | refusal to obey laws that are considered unjust |
NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Wanted to insure that the political, social, and economic, rights to everyone and get rid of racial hatred and descrimination. |
Thurgood Marshall | chief lawyer for the NAACP, he challenged the idea of seperate but equal. |
Brown vs. Board of Education | reversed Plessy vs. Ferguson saying "separate but equal" was unconstitutional. |
Rosa Parks | Civil Rights activist that refused to give up her seat on the bus |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | main leader of the civil rights movement |
Poverty Line | the minimum income needed to live |
Medicaid | provides health and medical assistance to low-income families |
Medicare | established a health insurance program for all elderly people financed through the social security system |
John F. Kennedy | 35th President |
New Frontier | federal aid for education, federal aid for the poor, civil rights legislation Kennedy's social reforms |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 36th President |
Great Society | Johnson's programs to reduce poverty, programs to rebuild decaying cities, legislation, to improve education and promote civil rights |
Job Corps | trained young people who were seeking work |
Civil Rights Act of 1964 | banned discrimination against African Americans in employment, voting, and public places. |
Sit In | the act of protesting by sitting down |
SNCC | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commitee |
Robert Kennedy | JFK's brother , Us attorney general |
James Meredith | University of Mississippi's first African American student enrolled |
George Wallace | Governor of Alabama |
Medgar Evers | Mississippi state field secretary for NAACP |
Malcom X | leader of the Nation of Islam, criticized the civil rights goal of integration, later he changed his ideas and called for a society where there could exist a white-black brotherhood. |
Feminist | activists for women 's rights |
National Organization for Women | Now fought for equal rights for women in all aspects of life - jobs, education, and marriage |
Equal Rights Amendment | ERA- stated that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the US or by any state on account of sex." |
Sandra Day O'Connor | 1st female justice of the Supreme Court |
Cesar Chavez | leader that organized thousands of farm workers into the United Farm Workers Association |
American Indian Movement | AIM- worked for equal rights and improved living conditions for Indians |
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