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1896 Supreme Court decision that segregation was legal as long as the separate facilities provided for blacks were equal to those provided to white
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Group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation
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Forced separation, oftentimes by race
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A league or alliance
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Murder of an accused person by a mob without a lawful trial
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Theory favoring the political, economic, and social equality of men and women
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Self-government, with respect to local matters
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Process of bringing people of different races together
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A presidential decree by President Lincoln, effective January 1, 1863, that freed slaves in Confederate-held territory
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South Christian Leadership Conference; Civil rights organization that advocated nonviolent protest; formed in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders
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A person who opposes slavery
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1858 Supreme Court case in which a slave sued for his freedom but the court ruled against him, because as a slave, he was not a U.S. Citizen
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African American movement seeking unity and self - reliance
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Union created by Cesar Chavez to organize Mexican field hands in the West
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Nine black teenagers who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 and became the focus of a national crisis that required the intervention of federal troops to resolve
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Constitutional amendment, ratified in 1964 to outlaw the poll tax
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1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion
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A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights
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Civil Rights worker whose arrest in 1955 touched off Montgomery Bus Boycott
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination, to oppose racism, and to gain civil rights for African Americans
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Form of protest in which protesters seat themselves and refuse to move
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Founded in 1960, a student civil rights organization and an offshoot of the SCLC
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