Key Terms..

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NAACP-  

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. it enforced equality for african americans in 1909.
  

Martin Luther King Jr.- 

• he was a leader in the African American Civil Rights Movement..he gave the famous I Have A Dream
  

Malcolm X.-

• human right activist..public speaker..he peacefully campainged for equal rights

Jackie Robinson-

• first black mayjor league baseball player..he played a part in ending colored segregation.

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka-

• it declared segregation in schools unconstitutional.

De-segregating the US Military-

• Truman and the country started looking at their own racism after ww2 and the genocidal plan was known..

Little Rock 9-

• a group of students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. the govorner did not allow them to enter the school.

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott-

• December 1955..she sat in a "white" person seat and when asked to move..she refused and then she got arrested.

Greensboro sit-ins-

• a series of non- violent protests.

Freedom Rides-

• civil right activists rode interstate buses into southern segregated area to test the supreme court..

Birmingham, Alabama—1963-

• the "C Project" a bombing took place where martin Luther king and other people were meeting and these people bombed them..

Mississippi Summer Project( Freedom Summer project)-

• it was a project to get as many african voters as possible in 1964

Selma, Alabama—1965-

• three marches in 1965 led by martin luther king starting form there to mongomery because they were trying to get voting rights for african americans in Selma..

Voting Rights Act of 1965-

• owtlawed discriminatory voting..

Civil Rights Act of 1964-

• it outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women

Stokely Carmichael-

• black activist in the 1960s who lead a non violent coordinate commitee

Black Panthers-

• it was to protect form police brutatilty and racial discrimination.

Affirmative action-

• basically states that you can not discriminate against someone because of their sex or race

Jesse Jackson-

• baptist minister and a civil rights activist in 1984 he was candidate for democratic presidential nomination