Civil Rights Movement:Ryan Bell

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  1. 2. Served as an NAACP lawyer who represented the children in Brown V. Board of education, would become the first black supreme court justice.
  2. 4. an effort in Mississippi where northerners came to the south to help get blacks registered to vote, 3 of the civil rights workers were murdered by the KKK
  3. 7. Leader of the peaceful civil rights movement, known for his "I have a dream" speech, assassinated in 1968
  4. 10. A program passed across the nation to hire more minorities and women, would eventually go to the supreme court in the case of Bakke v. Regents of University of California, where the supreme court ruled that racial quotas cannot be used for admission, but could take race in account for admissions.
  5. 11. 35th president of the United States, proposed a civil rights bill to end segregation in the south.
  6. 13. A 14 year old black northerner who was kidnapped and brutally murdered due to him being thought to have flirted with a white woman, this sparked outrage across the nation, however the killers were found not guilty.
  7. 15. Nine Black students who were allowed to go to an all whites school in Little Rock, Arkansas, However, the governor of Arkansas tried to prevent the students from entering the school, but the U.S. government sent in the national guard and forced him to stand down.
  8. 17. A sharp contrast to MLK, and his peaceful ways, believed that blacks should take their freedom by force, was assassinated in 1965
  9. 20. A bombing of 16th church in Birmingham, targeted due to the church's role in the Birmingham Campaign, initiated by KKK members during sunday school, killed 4 little girls.
  10. 22. Stood for Congress of Racial Equality, Was a group of white chicago college students pushing for racial equality, but became a black organization later on.
  11. 23. Stood for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, an organization fighting for the rights of Blacks, fought state laws that were for segregation and chipped away at Plessy vs Ferguson's ruling
  12. 24. The most famous speech done by MLK, would further strengthen the cause of the civil rights movement.
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  1. 1. A supreme court case where "Separate but equal" facilities were legal,leading to Jim Crow laws
  2. 3. The amendment in the constitution that granted former slaves citizenship, guaranteed due process and equal protection
  3. 5. Happened in 1948 when president Truman issued executive order 9981 requiring integration in the armed forces.
  4. 6. An act passed in 1968 banning the racial discrimination of sales to african americans.
  5. 8. a white supremacist group founded to prevent the advancement of other people based on their race or religion, however, these rules were not enforced.
  6. 9. A campaign of sit ins and marches to end segregation in Birmingham, the most segregated city in the U.S. at the time, however, after running out of adult volunteers, the protesters enlisted young boys and girls to protest Birmingham, led to the 16th street church bombing and MLK being jailed.
  7. 12. an act passed in 1964, banning the racial discrimination of blacks in public areas.
  8. 14. A supreme court case in which segregation in public schools was made illegal, however segregation still existed across the south.
  9. 16. a sit in that started when black college students sat at a white counter at a woolsworth store, the movement grew after they attempted to desegregate the counter after staging a sit in.
  10. 18. A letter MLK wrote after he was imprisoned while in Birmingham for the Birmingham Campaign, told why the civil rights movement was going on, and was also written on scraps of paper and toilet paper.
  11. 19. The first major act of the civil rights movement, would be the spark of the civil rights movement and inspire other boycotts across the south.
  12. 21. Her refusal to go to the back of a Montgomery Alabama bus caused her to be arrested, and sparked the civil rights movement with the Montgomery Bus Boycotts
  13. 22. Knowingly and deliberately violating a law believed to be unjust and willingly accepting the punishments for doing so.