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BPS Topic Resources: Civil Rights: Key Words & Events

Topic resources for units studied in Years 3 to 6 of the British Section.

Civil Rights

Underground Railroad

Segregation

March on Washington

Voting Rights Act 1964/1965

Little Rock Nine

Abolitionist

Slavery

SNCC - Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Civil Rights Act 1957

Emancipation / Emancipation Proclamation

Jim Crow

NAACP

Brown vs. Board of Education

Freedom Riders