Civil Rights Movement 1950's

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  1. 2. 8 year old in Topeka, Kansas, her father sued the school system in Brown vs the Board of Education.
  2. 6. African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist, preached black supremacy and violence against discrimination.
  3. 7. American author,activist, and civil rights leader, widow of iconic civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
  4. 8. National icon in the history of American progressiveness, leader of the Africa-American civil rights movement.
  5. 10. Black pastor and one of the founders of the Congress for Racial Equality in 1958
  6. 11. Founder of the first branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Brevard County, Florida.
  7. 13. Civil rights activist who worked for 3 decades to seek justice for the murder of her civil rights activist husband in 1963.
  8. 14. Woman who refused to give her seat up to a white passanger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
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  1. 1. 34th President of the US from 1953-1961, explained in his first State of Union address his support of the civil rights movement.
  2. 2. A group of African-American sstudents enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957
  3. 3. Executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) serving from 1931-1955.
  4. 4. 33rd President of the US from 1945-1953, wanted integration and equal rights for African-Americans.
  5. 5. 14 year old African-American boy from Chicago, Illinois killed near Money, Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman
  6. 9. Lawyer who won 29 of the 32 cases he argued in front of the supreme court, including the case Brown vs. the Board of Education.
  7. 10. Succeeded James W. Johnson as the head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) serving from 1931-1955
  8. 12. African-American civil rights activist from Mississippi involved in the efforts to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi.