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-cival rights: the rights of a person and what they stand for
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-Color Line: the line between Blacks and Whites
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-segargation: people are separated due to something different about them
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-Thurgood Marshall: First African american to be a judge on the supreme court-
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-Boycott: to not use a certain product due to inequality
-Rosa Parks: a African american that did not move seats on the bus and started a movement -
- little rock nine: was nine African american kids that went to a all white school
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-Sit-ins: Sitting in a public facility as a means of peaceful protesting
-Jim Crow laws: laws that make racial separation ok in the south
-African American college kids who went into Woolsworth everyday
-These students were often attacked by white coustomers -
-Nation of islam:
-Malcom X -
-Civil Disobedience: to protest a law nonviolently because it is not fair
-SNCC: a group of collage protesters -
-SCLC:Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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-NAACP: an organization for the advancement of colored people
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-Plessy v. Ferguson: 1896 case that determined separate but equal facilities
-originally Kennedys idea but Johnson got it passed
-Civil rights act banned discrimination -
-Disfrancise:
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-Kerner Commission:
-ghettos: -
-Black Power:
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-Discrimination:
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desegregation:
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-Affirmative Action:
