Civil Rights Movement
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bombashack on November 22, 2011
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Terms dealing with the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 segregation | The separation of or isolation of a race, class, or ethnic group from the rest of society. |
| Desegregation | the abolishment of racial segregation, which happened due to the work of Civil Rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Jim Crowe Laws | laws that enforced segregation in the south |
| Black Panthers | a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end political dominance by Whites |
| Freedom Summer | In 1964, when blacks and whites together challenged segregation and led a massive drive to register blacks to vote. |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African American suffrage |
| Fair Housing Act | The federal law that prohibits discrimination in housing based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, and national origin |
| Little Rock Crisis | The situation in Little Rock, Arkansas that occurred when 9 African American students tried to go to their newly desegregated school and were met by an angry mob. |
| Liberation Movements | Political struggles of people for their civil, human and liberal rights or an independence movement by people under authoritarian/totalitarian regimes. |
| Civil Rights | right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges such as the right to legal, social and economic equality. |
| ku Klux Klan | a secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | African American civil rights leader |
| George Wallace | Wallace was the governor of Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement and a staunch segregationist. |
| Malcolm X | militant civil rights leader (1925-1965) |
| Watts Riots of 1965 | a large riot in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, Ca. reportedly fueled by built up racial tension in the area |
| Core | an organizationdedicated to working towards racial equality in the USA. |
| Rosa Parks | United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national civil rights movement (born in 1913) |
| Democratic Rights | The right to vote, run for office or participate in government. |
| Equality Rights | The right to be free of discrimination because of race, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, age, or mental or physical disability. |
| illiberal | narrow-minded and intolerant of ideas that embrace openness and change. |
| American Civil War | Conflict that included, among other things, the right to own slaves. |
| March on Washington | held in 1963 to show support for the Civil Rights Bill in Congress. Martin Luther King gave his famous "I have a dream..." speech. 250,000 people attended the rally. |
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