DO YOU KNOW?

Do you know these terms associated with the civil rights and women’s

rights movements?

1954 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that “separate but

equal” education for black and white students was unconstitutional.

Brown v. Board of Education

African-American students who volunteered to integrate Central

High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Little Rock Nine

Separation of people on the basis of race.

Segregation

Act that prohibited discrimination because of

race, religion, national origin, and gender.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white

passenger.

Rosa Parks

Incorporation as equals into society or an organization of individuals of

different groups (or races)

Integration

African Americans refused to ride the buses in Montgomery, AL for 381 days.

Bus Boycott

Pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church and leader of the

non-violent Civil Rights Movement

Martin Luther King, Jr.

First African-American

Supreme Court Justice and argued for

Brown

Thurgood Marshall

Air Force veteran who won the right to enroll in the all-white University of Mississippi

James Meredith

Civil rights activists who rode buses through the South in the early

1960’s to challenge segregation.

Freedom Riders

N.O.W.

National Organization for Women

Coined the phrase “black power” and urged African Americans to define their own goals

and lead their own organizations

Stokely Carmichael

Act that eliminated the so-called literacy tests that had disqualified

many voters.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Urged African-American leaders to take

complete control of their communities,

livelihoods, and culture.

Malcolm X

A movement made up of mostly white, middle class college youths who were disillusioned with the

war in Vietnam and racial injustices in the 1960’s.

Hippies/Counterculture

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Landmark Supreme Court decision that

made it legal for women to choose an abortion within the

first 3 months of pregnancy

Roe v

Wade