Civil Rights

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  1. 3. Emmett ______'s murder in MS sparked outrage and helped begin the Civil Right Movement.
  2. 9. The ________ laws allowed for segregation in the South.
  3. 11. Which president banned discrimination in military factories
  4. 13. What word means to separate blacks and whites in public places?
  5. 15. What happened to the 16th Street Baptist church?
  6. 16. President ______ integrated our military after WWII.
  7. 17. The 16th Street Baptist Church was ________ killing 4 little girls.
  8. 18. Dr. _____ was asassinated in Memphis, TN.
  9. 19. What is the name of the nonviolent protest at lunch counters an restaurants called?
  10. 21. In 1619, the first _______ were brought to America.
  11. 25. Bull _______ was the Police Commissioner of Birmingham who turned hoses and dogs on the children who marched and protested segregation?
  12. 28. Which Act in 1965 stated all discrimination should end and all people should be allowed to vote?
  13. 30. The march in AL began in which city?
  14. 31. Dr. King's birthday is celebrated as a _____ holiday beginning in 1986.
  15. 33. What form of transportation was boycotted in Montgomery?
  16. 34. Who was elected president in 1960 and supported the Civil Rights movement?
  17. 35. The 24th Amendment stated NO to ____ taxes!
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  1. 1. Which president signed the Voting Rights Act in 1965 into law?
  2. 2. Which city in Arkansas was the site of the first integrated high school?
  3. 4. What is the name of the group of students who integrated the first high school in Arkansas?
  4. 5. Rosa _________ helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
  5. 6. Where is the Edmund Pettus Bridge?
  6. 7. Slavery was made illegal when President _______ signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
  7. 8. Who was the man who sued in Louisiana after being denied the right to get on a "whites only" train car. This led to him losing and "separate but equal" being acceptable.
  8. 10. What is it called when college students would ride interstate busses and purposefully cross state lines where there was a segregated state
  9. 12. Thurgood _______ was Linda Brown's lawyer our the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
  10. 14. What words means to allow all races to be together?
  11. 20. Where was the "I Have a Dream" speech given?
  12. 22. What is the name of the famous bridge in Selma, AL. that people marched across to protest for the Civil Rights Movement?
  13. 23. Freedom Riders challenge segregation on public busses traveling from the ____ to the south.
  14. 24. What is the title of Dr. Martin Luther King's famous speech at hte March on Washington called?
  15. 26. Which city in Kansas was the center of a school integration lawsuit?
  16. 27. What is Linda's last name - the little girl whose family sued the Topeka school board?
  17. 29. The Governor of Alabama who was for segregation....George __________
  18. 32. Jackie ______ was the first African American man to pay professional baseball.