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Civil Rights-
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Color line: The line created by law, custom, and economic differences that separated whites from nonwhites.
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Segregation- A way of separating white people from black people
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Thurgood Marshall:
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Boycott: Rosa Parks: The person who's actions started the Montgomery bus Boycott
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Disenfranchise-
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Little Rock Nine- Nine black students integrate into the Central High school, an all white school.
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Jim Crow Laws:
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Civil Disobedience-
SNCC-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commitee -
SCLC- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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NAACP- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Kerner Commission- National advisory commission that concluded Watts riots were the cause of white racism.
Ghettos- Parts of a city where people that belonged to an ethnic group live. -
Black Power- group of activists that were not focused on nonviolent protesting
SNCC- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Blacks, and the nation of Islam were influenced by the leaders Malcom X, Huey Newton, and Bobby Seale - Were okay with violence - -
Discrimination-
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desegregation: Ending the separation of people by race.
-School and the black students who are being bussed to the school
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Affirmative action-
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Nation of Islam-
Malcom X-
