The practice of requiring separate housing, education and other services for people of color
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Emmett Till
A 14-year-old African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store
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Rosa Parks
An American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
A political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
An American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
A civil rights organization founded in 1957, as an offshoot of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), which successfully staged a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery Alabama's segregated bus system
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
A civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans
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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
An African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the civil rights movement
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Sit-Ins
Demonstrators occupy a place open to the public, such as a racially segregated (see segregation) lunch counter or bus station, and then refuse to leave
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
The principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s
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Freedom Rides
An interracial bus ride across state lines to test a Supreme Court decision that declared segregation on interstate buses unconstitutional
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Medgar Evers
An American civil rights activist and the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi who was assassinated by a white supremacist
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Birmingham, Alabama
In the spring of 1963, activists in Birmingham, Alabama launched one of the most influential campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement: Project C, better known as The Birmingham Campaign
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March on Washington
A massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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Voting Rights Act
A landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting
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Freedom Schools
Temporary, alternative, and free schools for African Americans mostly in the South
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Selma, Alabama
John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and faced brutal attacks by oncoming state troopers, footage of the violence collectively shocked the nation and galvanized the fight against racial injustice
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Malcolm X
African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement
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Stokely Carmichael
A prominent organizer in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global pan-African movement
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Black Panthers
A militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end political dominance by Whites
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