Comprehensive 1960's
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 13th Amendment | This amendment abolished slavery, at least on paper |
| 14th Amendment | This amendment gave Blacks citizenship |
| 15th Amendment | The amendment that gave Black men the right to vote |
| Freedmen's Bureau | This organization helped newly freed slaves and poor whites in the South by providing food, shelter, and medical assistance |
| Brown v. Board of Education | The Supreme Court case that called for school integration |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | Rosa Parks was the woman who started this year-long boycott |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | This law gave the government the power to force officials to allow Blacks to register to vote |
| Black Codes | Laws in the South that made newly freed slaves feel like they were slaves once again |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | The outcome of this Supreme Court case was the idea of "separate but equal" |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination | The murder that took place on April 4, 1968, by James Earl Ray |
| 16th Street Baptist Church bombing | This 1963 event, carried out by KKK, resulted in the deaths of four young girls in Alabama |
| John F. Kennedy | 1960's president of the U.S. that was a supporter of civil rights |
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