Civil Rights Movement Flashcards

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Segregation

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Policy that forced separation between the races

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Integration

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the end of racial segregation

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Thurgood Marshall

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First African-American on the Supreme Court

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Rosa Parks

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Seamstress who inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Organized to fight segregation in Montgomery, Alabama

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Best-known leader of the Civil Rights Movement

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Brown v. Board of Education

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Case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson

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Miranda v. Arizona

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Supreme Court case that guaranteed your rights if arrested

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Welfare

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Payments made to the poor to meet basic needs

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Civil Disobedience

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Peaceful refusal to follow unjust laws