Civil Rights

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  1. 3. What laws were in place in the south to KEEP segregation after the Civil War ended?
  2. 5. What hit the 16th Street Baptist Church?
  3. 8. Which ACT in 1965 stated all discrimination should end and all people should be allowed to vote?
  4. 10. What is an example of a nonviolent protest that began at a lunch counter?
  5. 12. What word means to separate blacks and whites in public places?
  6. 13. What woman sparked outrage when she refused to give up her seat on a bus?
  7. 15. Freedom Riders challenge segregation on public buses traveling from the ________ to the south
  8. 16. Who was the group of students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas?
  9. 18. Who was elected President in 1960 and supported civil rights?
  10. 20. Southern Christian Leadership Conference is formed in 1957 Abbreviation
  11. 22. Who was the Police Commissioner of Birmingham who turned the hoses on the children who protested?
  12. 23. In which Tennessee city was Dr. King assassinated
  13. 25. Student nonviolent Coordinating Committee was established in 1960 to organize the sit in movement - abbreviation
  14. 26. What is Dr. King's middle name?
  15. 27. What form of transportation was boycotted in Montgomery, AL.?
  16. 28. Governor ________ of Alabama was a segregationist.
  17. 29. Executive Order 9981 ordered the US ________ Forces be desegregated
  18. 30. Emmett _______'s murder sparked such outrage some people say this started the Civil Rights Movement.
  19. 31. Jackie _____ was the first black man to play professional baseball.
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  1. 1. Where did Dr. King give his famous "I Have a Dream " speech?
  2. 2. Which president signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law?
  3. 4. What is the name of the lunch place in Greensboro which was the site of the first sit in?
  4. 6. Freedom Rides were when both blacks and whites rode on a ______ throughout the south to try to desegregate travel
  5. 7. Which Baptist church was bombed and 4 little girls died?
  6. 9. Who was Linda Brown's lawyer and he later became a Supreme Court judge?
  7. 11. Which city in Kansas was at the center of a lawsuit?
  8. 14. Who was the little girl who was sent to a different elementary school outside of her neighborhood to integrate it?
  9. 15. Sit-ins were a __________ way to protest.
  10. 17. This racist organization uses violence to protest desegregation
  11. 19. in 1909
  12. 21. During Freedom summer, people tried to help others with their ______ to vote!
  13. 24. Where is the famous Edmund Pettus Bridge that civil rights protestors marched across on their way to Montgomery?
  14. 32. National Association for the advancement of colored people