Civil Rights Vocab

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1896 Supreme Court decision: segregation legal

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Plessy V. Ferguson

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1954 - Supreme Court ruled racially segregated facilities are unequal, ordering public school desegregation.

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Brown V. Board of Ed.

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Civil Rights leader who organized nonviolent resistance and peaceful demonstrations.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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Civil Rights leader who refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, AL.

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Rosa Parks

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Founding member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Civil Rights activist

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Fred Shuttlesworth

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Student leader of SNCC who organized sit-ins

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John Lewis

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Protest (1955-56) by African Americans against bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Civil rights workers who protested bus segregation in 1961.

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Freedom Riders

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1965 King led a 54-mile march to support black voter registration.

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Selma to Montgomery March

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1963 demonstration with 200,000+ for economic equality & civil rights

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March on Washington