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Civil Rights Movement

a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held

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Jim Crow Laws

any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South

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NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization

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Plessy v. Ferguson

Supreme Court Case in 1896 that ruled that racially separate facilities, if equal, did not violate the Constitution. It made discrimination legal.

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Brown v. Board of Education

the 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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Montgomery Bus Boycott

a civil-rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating.

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Civil Rights Act 1964

this law outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

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Voting Rights Act 1965

A law passed at the time of the civil rights movement. It eliminated various ways, such as literacy tests and poll taxes, that had been used to restrict voting by black people.

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March on Washington

In August 1963, civil rights leaders organized a massive rally in Washington to urge passage of President Kennedy's civil rights bill. The high point came when MLK Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech to more than 200,000 marchers in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

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Little Rock Nine

1957 - Governor Faubus sent the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine Black students from entering Little Rock Central High School. Eisenhower sent in U.S. military to ensure the students could attend class.

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Freedom Riders

Group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation

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Bloody Sunday/Selma

Peaceful protesters were met with violence. Led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965

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Woolworth's Sit-Ins

4 college students sat at the lunch counter to protest segregation. Spread to other cities.