Sit-in

 Definition: (of a group of people) occupy a place as a form of protest.

Voting Rights Act

Definition:The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. 

Migrant Workers

Definition:a person who either migrates within their home country or outside it to pursue work such as seasonal work. Migrant workers usually do not have an intention to stay permanently in the country or region in which they work.

ERA

Definition:An era is a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography, as in the regnal eras in the history of a given monarchy, a calendar era used for a given calendar, or the geological eras defined for the history of Earth.

Civil disobedience

Definition:Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws of the state, and/or demands, orders, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. 

Black codes

Definition:In the United States, the Black Codes were laws passed by Democrat-controlled Southern states in 1865 and 1866, and ended in 1877 because of the Reconstruction after the Civil War.

Sharecropper

Definition:Sharecropping is a form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced. 

Civil Rights

Definition:Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.