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  1. 1. 75th governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971.
  2. 5. the ending of a policy of racial segregation.
  3. 6. 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.
  4. 9. American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
  5. 11. Separating whites and African Americans
  6. 13. 52 United States diplomats and citizens were held hostage after a group of militarized Iranian college students
  7. 14. civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois
  8. 16. Jimmy Carters wife
  9. 18. principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s.
  10. 20. Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional
  11. 21. held in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, August 28, 1963. The purpose of this was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.
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  1. 2. American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991.
  2. 3. American politician who served as governor of Georgia for a short period in 1947 and then again from 1948 until 1955 then as U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1957 to 1981.
  3. 4. elections held in the Southern United States in which only white voters were permitted to participate
  4. 7. they're guarantees of equal social opportunities and protection under the law, regardless of race, religion, or other characteristics.
  5. 8. when whites and colored people come together
  6. 10. Beginning his career as a pastor, an early leader in the civil rights movement, serving as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a close confidant to Martin Luther King Jr.
  7. 12. a sports team that came to Georgia in 1968
  8. 15. member of the Democratic Party, he was elected in 1973 at the age of 35 as the first black mayor of Atlanta, Georgia and of any major city in the South.
  9. 17. desegregation and voters' rights coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, in November 1961.
  10. 19. American rights leader who is credited with laying the intellectual foundations of the American civil rights movement.