| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Created to keep discrimination of age and race away from the work place | Equal Employment Opportunity Act |
| Black leader who wanted to stop racism; Gave the "I Have Dream" speech. | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| August 28th, 1963; 250,000 people marched from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. | March on Washington |
| This amendment gave citizenship to African Americans. | 14th Amendment |
| Seperated peope, of different races as a form of discrimination | Segragation |
| Movement in the U.S. in 1960's led by blacks to give equal rights to black citizens | Civil Rights Movement |
| Thousands of state and local laws which were passed by southern states to keep Blacks separated and in an inferior position | Jim Crow Laws |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| The Day that the Civil Rights Act was passed as a law | July 2nd, 1964 |
| Number of people approximatley at the March on Washington | 250,000 |
| Group of senators keep talking so a bill doesn't pass | Filibuster |
| Where the March on Washington took place | From Washington Monument to Lincoln Memorial |
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