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  1. 2. religious organization helped lead events and pass civil rights act and voting rights act
  2. 4. amendment that granted African American men the right to vote
  3. 7. 9 black students had to be escorted into a newly integrated school due to state and community backlash
  4. 8. made to investigate the causes of widespread racial unrest in America, particularly riots in Detroit and Newark
  5. 10. Over 100,000 people showed up to peaceful protest at this march where MLK gave his famous speech
  6. 11. laws that mandated racial segregation in all public spaces
  7. 13. a case that decided segregation was okay as long as facilities were separate but equal
  8. 16. African American protesters rode city buses to challenge segregation laws on buses
  9. 17. organization that wanted to bring equality to everyone, organized the freedom rides and other nonviolent protests
  10. 19. Campaign created by MLK to turn to economic injustice in America
  11. 20. campaign initiated in 1942, sought to address systemic racism and segregation
  12. 21. segregation in schools overruled by the supreme court in this case
  13. 22. A 14 year old boy was lynched and tortured, his mom held a public funeral to show the horrible treatment of African Americans
  14. 23. organization helped outlaw segregation in schools and wanted to get rid of legal segregation
  15. 24. organized protest for the need for voting rights, protesters were brutally attacked by white police
  16. 25. Rosa Parks is arrested, community responds by boycotting buses in protest.
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  1. 1. amendment that states neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as punishment for crime
  2. 3. Youth-lead nonviolent organization focused on civil rights and ending segregation
  3. 5. organization that protected black citizens from brutality, meant to serve the needs of the oppressed
  4. 6. organization meant to defend all rights of people nationwide
  5. 9. banned literacy tests, removed race-based restrictions on voting
  6. 12. A movement to support African Americans in using their economic and political muscle to gain equality.
  7. 14. passed in 1964, prohibited governments from imposing toll taxes before a citizen could participate in a federal election
  8. 15. religious organization (Malcolm X) encouraged followers to drop slave names and embrace their black heritage
  9. 16. extended liberties and rights granted by the bill of rights to formerly enslaved people
  10. 18. An African american in charge of Nation of Islam, took X as his last name to show how slaves identities were stolen