16.2 - Challenging Segregation (pp. 480-486)

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  1. 5. The KKK did this to the Birmingham 16th Street Baptist Church.
  2. 8. Conner told the local Klan to beat the riders until "it looked like a ___ got a hold of them".
  3. 11. Racist sheriff of Selma.
  4. 13. JFK appointed him a federal judgeship on the second Circuit Appeals Court in NY.
  5. 14. Protest style where people sat down and refused to leave
  6. 16. Period in the summer of 1964 when student workers were trying to registers southern African Americans to vote.
  7. 19. To file personal information in order to become eligible for an official event.
  8. 20. A motion that ends debate and calls for an immediate vote.
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  1. 1. Dr. King was put in jail in this city and wrote a famous letter there.
  2. 2. North Carolina city where college students first protested segregated lunch counters in 1959.
  3. 3. Name given to the day that hundreds of protesters were brutally beaten by the Alabama State Police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
  4. 4. Nickname of the Birmingham public safety commissioner, Theophilius Conner.
  5. 6. MLK won this famous prize in 1964.
  6. 7. Racist governor of Alabama who said, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!".
  7. 9. An attempt to kill a bill by having a group of senators take turns speaking continuously so that a vote cannot take place.
  8. 10. MLK led a famous march of 250,000 in this city on August 28, 1963.
  9. 12. Group that murdered three student workers trying to register African-American voters in Mississippi in 1964.
  10. 15. The city of Selma only had this percentage of African Americans registered to vote.
  11. 16. Mixed race groups who rode buses together to protest segregation on buses and in terminals were known as the ___ Riders.
  12. 17. Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
  13. 18. Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity
  14. 21. President who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.