| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Black Panthers | A militant civil rights reform group |
| Chicago Movement | Martin Luther King, Jr. moved to a slum to call attention to poverty and worked to improve housing conditions in poor neighborhoods |
| Civil Rights Act 1957 | Focused government attention on the Civil Rights issue, created a division for civil rights in the Department of Justice |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Banned segregation, created the Equal Employment Oppurtunity Commission, and gave the federal government more power to prevent discrimination |
| De Facto Segregation | Seperation from a group by custom and tradition as opposed to law |
| Filibuster | When a senator stalls for time by talking to prevent a vote |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | Began after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat, it was made to protest discrimination |
| Little Rock 9 | African American students who were escorted into a segregated school by the Arkansas National Gaurd |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Sent federal workers to register African American voters, suspended literacy tests and similar devices for voting |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Pastor who became a figurehead of the Civil Rights movement. He began the Chicago Movement and was head of the Montgomery Bus Boycott |
| SCLC | The Southern Christian Leadership Commission, a group formed to encourage African Americans to register to vote |
| SNCC | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, made up of college students, they played a large role in ending desegegation and registering African American voters |
| Freedom Rides | Desegregated buses driven into the South to draw attention to segregated buses |
| Malcolm X | Converted to the Muslim faith and became the symbol of the black power movement |
| Cloture | An action where, with enough votes, the senate can stop a filibuster |
| Kerner Commission | Found that racism was a main cause for riots and poverty in cities |
| March on Washington | 200,000 demonstrators gathered to support the Civil Rights Act that was not easily going through Congress |
| Nation of Islam | Group joined by Malcolm X that preached black nationalism |
| Selma to Montgomery | Peaceful march in Alabama that led to 70 African American hospitalized by law enforcement officials |
| Sit-ins | Members who were refused service at a restaurant would sit down and refuse to leave. |
| Watts Riot | Broke out in a neighborhood in Los Angeles after allegations of police brutality |
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