Chapter 15 Civil Rights Terms Chart

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  1. 3. The explanation given by the Supreme Court to explain why they had decided that segregation was legal in the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case
  2. 4. Most important and recognizable leader of the civil rights movement. Known for great speeches.
  3. 7. Segregation based on custom, circumstances and traditions.
  4. 10. Requiring people to prove that they could read and write and had general knowledge before they would be allowed to vote.
  5. 12. When a state would require a person to pay money before they could vote. It was a way of keeping southern blacks from voting
  6. 13. Laws created in the south to keep the races separated from one another
  7. 14. This form of protest was used by a number of Civil Rights organizations in their effort to desegregate restaurants, movie theaters and stores.
Down
  1. 1. Segregation based on laws
  2. 2. The separation of people in to groups based on race
  3. 5. This employee of the NAACP started the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to give up her seat to a white male bus passenger
  4. 6. A protest led by a 26 year old Dr. King that attempted to end segregation on public busses.
  5. 8. A 14 year old African American boy who was brutally murdered for violating Jim Crow social customs by allegedly "making advances" on a white woman.
  6. 9. Prejudice and or discrimination against a person or group based on their race or ethnic group
  7. 11. This important Civil Rights Group was organized and lead by religious leaders in the community, Most notably Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.