Hamer
Voting activist who spoke for mississippi democratic freedom party
Meredith
Black student who integrated University of Mississippi
De facto
Segregation by practice
Apartheia
South African system of racial segregation
Martin Luther king jr
Civil rights leader assassinated in 1968
SNCC
Student protest organization
Kerner
Commission that studied urban violence
Soul
Term used for nonviolent resistance used by MLK Jr. "________ force
Mecca
Saudi Arabia destination that radically charged Malcom Xs thinking
Plessy v. Ferguson
Supreme Court decision that said separate but equal railroad accommodations
Malcom X
Muslim minister who initially preached black superiority and separatism
Brown vs. Board of Education
Supreme Court decision that declared segregation of public schools unconstitutional
Thurgood Marshall
First African American Supreme Court justice
Little Rock
Site of showdown over school desegregation
Vote
Freedom summer" activists encouraged African Americans to ________
March on Washington
Mass demonstration in Washington in 1963
Montgomery
Location of organized bus boycott
Watts
Neighborhood in Los Angelos where race riots erupted
De jure
segregation by law
Selma
Site of important voting campaign in 1965
Freedom
Civil rights activists on interstate buses: ______________ riders
Conner
Police commissioner of Birmingham
SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Pole
24th amendment outlawed this type of tax