unit 2 key terms civil rights

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  • plessy v. ferguson

    Plessy refused to sit in a jim crow car. The motto that came out of this case was "seperate but equal" . The whites and blacks did not attend the 13 and 14 amendment

  • Hector P. Garcia

    Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum.

  • brown v. board of education

    "seperate but equal"= not equal. happened in little rock arkansas.

  • Rosa parks

    "The mother of the civil rights movement."

  • Orval Faubus

    American politician who served as 36th Governor of Arkansas. Held the office longer than anyone. National symbol of racial segregation

  • George Walace

    45th governor of Alabama

  • betty friedan

    wrote the book The Feminine Mystique.

  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    Baptist minister. Most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement.

  • Thurgood Marshall

    First black supreme court justice. Marshall was the court's 96th justice and its first black justice.

  • Lester Maddox

    75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia. Refused to serve black customers in his Atlanta restaurant.