Vocabulary
Names
Dates
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100
to open to people of all races or ethnic groups
integrate
100
an influential leader of the civil rights era
Martin Luther King, Jr.
100
What happened in 1896
Plessy vs. Ferguson
100
grassroots
group of ordinary people who come together at a local level for a cause
200
organization that coordinated non-violent civil rights protests across the south
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
200
Malcom-X
African-American activist killed in 1965
200
What happened in 1954
Brown VS. Board of Education of Topeka
200
What happened in 1963
March on Washington
300
Student Non-violent Coordinating Comittee (SNCC)
organization created to give young people a greater role in the civil rights movement
300
Mexican-American union organizer and negotiater
Dolores Huerta
300
When did the Montgomery Bus Boycott occur?
1955
300
Voting Rights Act
1965 law banning literacy tests and other laws that kept blacks from registering to vote
400
Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE)
organization that planned freedom rides
400
Mexican-American union organizer and leader
Ceasar Chavez
400
Who was assassinated in 1968
Martin Luther King, Jr.
400
What does NOW stand for and what is it?
It's an organization founded in 1966 to get women good jobs at equal pay
500
disenfranchised
people deprived of legal rights, especially the right to vote
500
Betty Friedan
woman's rights leader and author of, The Feminine Mystique.
500
What happened in 1964?
Freedom Summer
500
What is the Great Society?
President Johnson's programs to help the poor, elderly, and women
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