Systematic separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.

• Segregation

• Desegregation

• Affirmative Action

• Freedom Summer

Court case challenged segregation in public education and the Supreme Court ruled segregation in public education illegal.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Affirmative Action

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Freedom Riders

The first law passed since Reconstruction (just after the Civil War) to establish a Civil Rights Commission to investigate violations.

• Desegregation

• Civil Rights Act of 1957

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

In what region of the United States did the Civil Rights Commission need to spend most of their time investigating?

American Civil Rights activist and Air Force Veteran who was the first African-American admitted to the University of Mississippi.

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Malcolm X

• James Meredith

Policy which eliminates the practice of isolating, separating, or setting a particular group apart.

• Segregation

• Affirmative Action

• Freedom Summer

• Desegregation

A landmark Civil Rights and Labor law in the U.S. that made it illegal to discriminate based on race, color, religion, or gender.

• Civil Rights Act of 1957

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Affirmative Action

Civil Rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Soutehrn states to test the law.

• Freedom Summer

• Freedom Riders

• James Meredith

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

Once those two buses were attacked by southern protestors, President Kennedy made a deal with Mississippi's governor. Explain the deal.

In 1964, a major voter registration project, where 1000 volunteers flooded Mississippi to register African Americans to vote.

• Freedom Riders

• Affirmative Action

• Desegregation

• Freedom Summer