Social Studies Feb 5

9 cards·by Dominus

segregation

to intentionally separate; schools were segregated by race before the Civil Rights Movement

Ku Klux Klan

established in 1866, a whitesupremacist terrorist group that tormented and killed African Americans in the South

Civil disobedience

a person intentionally breaking the law that he or she considers unfair

Civil Rights Act of 1964

banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, or national origin

March on Washington

involved 250,000 activists marching in Washington DC. They heard Matin Luther King, Jr.ś speech Ï have a dream¨

Freedom Riders

Civil Rights protestors (white and black) who rode interstate buses together in 1961 to ensure segregation was no longer happening in South

Freedom Summer and black voting registration

3 activists were murdered while attempting to register black voters

landmark

extremely important

Birmingham, Alabama

one of the most segregated cities in the country - 4 African American girls were killed in a church bombing.