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- 4. After Rosa Parks got arrested for refusing to give up her seat, they organized this to protest bus segregation
- 5. First African American student of UOM
- 6. Known for encouraging people to drop their slave names and use their real one, still around today with around 35,000 people
- 12. Civil Rights organization that focused on Black Nationalism, ultimately disbanded in 1992
- 14. Civil Rights organization who focused on social justice and racial equality, also helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott
- 15. The one who brought the NAACP the Emmitt Till case
- 16. Nine kids that had to be escorted by guards to school for safety
- 17. Civil Rights youth-led organization that led non-violent direct action campaigns against segregation
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- 1. Civil Rights organization most known for organizing The Freedom Rides
- 2. Ultimately prohibited states from not letting people of color vote
- 3. March(s) led by MLK to establish voting rights
- 7. The amendment that forbid voting tax and literacy tests
- 8. Mid-1960s movement that was helping African Americans empower eachother
- 9. Civil Rights organization that played major roles in BrownvBoard, The Montgomery Bus Boycott and The Emmitt Till Case
- 10. The supreme court case that led to the desegregation of schools
- 11. This was established to investigate the cause of racial unjust
- 13. Traveled from DC to the deep south by bus and ended up getting beaten by a group of KKK members
- 15. Extremely important leader in black nationalism, sadly was assassinated in 1964