All terms in this list:

Plessy v. Ferguson: 1896 case in which the supreme court ruled that the separation of races in public was legal.

Segregation: Separation, especially of races.

Jim Crow Laws: Laws meant to enforce separation of white and black people in public places in the south.

Infringe: To violate

Civil Rights: Rights granted to all citizens

Montgomery Bus boycott: 1955 protest action to end segregation on buses in Montgomery, Alabama.

Brown v. Board of education: 1954 case in which the supreme court ruled that "separate but equal" for black and white students was unconstitutional.

desegegation: the process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to racial connestaions

desegregation: The act or process of eliminating segregation.

March on Washington: Civil rights demonstration in Washington D.C. in 1963

Civil right's act of 1964: Law banning segregation in public places and creating the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

voting right's act of 1965: 1965 law banning literacy tests and other laws that kept blacks from registering to vote.

NOW: National organization for women founded in 1966 to get women good jobs at equal pay.

ERA: equal rights amendments proposed that would give equality of rights regardless of sex.

AIM: American Idian Movement - demanded rights for people on reservations and recognition of tribal laws.

United Farm Workers: Labor Union created by Cesar chavez and dolores hunertsa to represent the rights of mexican farm workers.