Civil Rights - The fight for rights for African Americans that other Americans already had, Jim Crow Laws - Any laws that enforced racial segregation, Segregation - Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences, Integration - Uniting people of different races, desegregation - The ending of a policy of racial segregation, Plessy vs Furgeson - Separate but Equal is legal. Segregation was required, Brown vs Board of Education - Supreme Court case - separate but equal is NOT legal, Civil Rights Act - This law outlawed discrimination & banned segregation, voter registration - To sign up to vote, poll tax - Charged African Americans to prevent them from voting, Voting Rights Act 1965 - Law that eliminated ways that had been used to restrict voting, Emmett Till - A teen from Chicago whose brutal murder made people more aware of racism in the South and inspired Civil Rights leaders, Barbara Johns - She led her high school in a 2-week boycott that led to school desegregation, Human Rights - The basic rights that all people should have, activist - A person who protests in some form brings about change, Freedom Riders - Protestors against segregation took buses to the South to protest, Montgomery Bus Boycott - Black Americans boycotted busses until Supreme Court ruled segregation was illegal on public transportation , Dr Martin Luther King, Jr - Encouraged passive resistance against segregation, Rosa Parks - Her actions started a boycott that led to the desegragation of public transportation , Americans with Disabilities Act - Requires public facilities to accommodate people with disabilities, IDEA - Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - Supports special education programs for children and youth with disabilities.,

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