| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Marian Anderson | Balck opera singer, was refussed premission to play by DAR then sung in front of lincoln memorial |
| Ruby Bridges | a little girl who was one of the first blacks to go to an all white school, dad thought no, mom thought yes |
| Linda Brown | wanted to go to white school closer to her house took it to court became Brown vs. the board of education |
| Dwight Eisenhower | 34th president of the US |
| Duke Elington | He was talented black pianist, composer, poet, and band director |
| Medgar Evers | Director of the NAACP in Mississippi, lawyer who defended accused Blacks, was murdered in his driveway by a member of the Ku Klux Klan. |
| Josh Gibbson | nicknamed the "Black Babe Ruth", famous player in the negro leagues |
| Billie Holiday | Great female blues & jazz singer who died of drug/alcohol abuse |
| Langston Hughes | Was a black poet and famous writer |
| Lyndon Johnson | 36th President of the United States |
| Scott Joplin | US composer, was the first creator of ragtime to write down his compositions |
| Joe Louis | African American heavyweight boxing champion |
| Thurgood Marshall | American civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the Supreme Court of the U.S. |
| Jesse Owens | United States athlete and Black American whose success in the Olympic Games in Berlin |
| Satchel Paige | United States baseball player, a famous pitcher |
| Bessie Smith | African American blues singer who played and important role in the Harlem Reniassance. |
| Emmet Till | Boy 14 years old, went to a candy Store and says "Bye, baby," to the girl at the counter, was murdered by 2 brothers, who confess to the crime |
| Freedom Riders | goal to protest segregation, got on buses in north and refused to take segregated buses, killed by members of the KKK |
| Brown vs. Board of Education | brown charged school of violation lindas rights by denying admission to a white school, known as unconstitutional |
| Voting Rights Act | A law passed that forbids any state to deny a citizen the right to vote on the basis of race color or sex. |
| Civil Rights Act | guaranteed blacks the same treatment as whites in certain public places |
| Little Rock Nine | Nine black students who would be admitted to a white school after integration ruling. |
| 24th Amendment | made it illegal to have tax on a ballot cause poor african and white americans could not afford that tax and couldnt vote. |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | a case brought to supreme court by black lawsuits challenging segregation. The court ruled that segregation was legal as long as it was "equal" |
| CORE | where followers of the Ghandian principles being non-violent |
| Ruby Bridges Importance | For being one of the first children to intagrate an elementery school, born in mississippi, very poor |
| Background and Works of Langston Hughes | Born in joplin . His firshed puplished poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers". |
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