Vocabulary List – Civil Rights
(Chapters 16, 18 (lessons 2 & 3) and 19 (Lesson 1)
Use the textbook to create flashcards. Put the term on one side and the definition on the OTHER
(lined) side. On the term side, draw a symbol or picture that represents the term.
Put your name and class period on each card on the side with the term – top left corner.
Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)
Malcolm X
Miranda v. Arizona
Black Panthers
Housing and Urban Development Act of 1964
Assassination of Martin Luther King
Rosa Parks
Betty Friedan
Congress on Racial Equality (CORE)
National Organization of Women (NOW)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Credibility Gap
Martin Luther King
Draft (during Vietnam War)
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Equal Rights Amendment
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC)
Title IX
Little Rock Crisis
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Orval Faubus
League of United Latin American Citizens
(LULAC)
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Mendez v. Westminster (1947)
Sit-Ins
Hector P. Garcia
Freedom Riders
Hernandez v. Texas (1954)
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC)
Cesar Chavez
Civil Rights Act of 1964
March on Washington
Selma March
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Dolores Huerta
United Farm Workers (UFW)
La Raza Unida
Chicano Mural Movement
George Wallace
Vocabulary List – Civil Rights
(Chapters 16, 18 (lessons 2 & 3) and 19 (Lesson 1)
Affirmative Action
Shirley Chisholm
American Indian Movement (AIM)
Americans with Disabilities Act
Delgado v. Bastrop I.S.D. (1948)
Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)
Lester Maddox