Civil Rights- Corrigan

2. group established in 1960 to promote and use non-violent means to protest racial discrimination; they were the ones primarily responsible for creating the sit-in movement
5. A test given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote.
8. 14 year old boy that was killed by whites for flirting with a white woman. His mother had an open casket to reveal the horrors of what had been done to him.
10. 1952; renamed himself X to signify the loss of his African heritage; converted to Nation of Islam in jail in the 50s, became Black Muslims' most dynamic street orator and recruiter; his beliefs were the basis of a lot of the Black Power movement built on seperationist and nationalist impulsesto achieve true independence and equality
11. Tax A tax of a fixed amount per person and payable as a requirement for the right to vote

1. 50's migration where middle-class white Americans fled to suburbs leaving inner cities to decay
2. churches link together to inform blacks about changes in the Civil Rights Movement, led by MLK Jr., was a success
3. First civil rights organization to use non-violent tactics to promote racial equality and desegregation
4. helped increase voting among blacks by information
6. Protests by black college students, 1960-1961, who took seats at "whites only" lunch counters and refused to leave until served; in 1960 over 50,000 participated in sit-ins across the South. Their success prompted the formation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
7. 50 mile March
9. founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination, to oppose racism and to gain civil rights for African Americans, got Supreme Court to declare grandfather clause unconstitutional