Civil Rights Vocab

4. x An African American Muslim minister and a human rights activist.
7. Form of protest where participants sit and refuse to move.
8. of islam African American religious organization founded in 1930 that advocated separation of the races.
9. summer Effort to register African American voters in Mississippi.
10. ride Protest by activists who rode buses through southern states to test their compliance with the ban on segregation on interstate buses.
14. rights act of 1957 Law that established a federal Civil Rights Commission.
15. amendment Constitutional amendment that banned the poll tax as a voting requirement.
16. Grassroots movement founded in the 1960 by young civil rights activists.

1. v. ferguson Is a landmark Unites States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of separate but equal.
2. rights act Law that banned literacy tests and empowered the federal government to oversee voter registration.
3. parks An African American civil rights activist and was called the first lady of civil rights and the mother of the freedom movement.
4. bus boycott Protest by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, against racial segregation in the bus system.
5. luther king jr. An African American pastor, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
6. v. board of education A landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
11. jure segregation Segregation imposed by law.
12. on washington 1963 demonstration in which more than 200000 people rallied for economic equality and civil rights.
13. panthers Organization of militant African Americans founded in 1966.