Montgomery bus boycott
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- 4. Civil Rights tactic of blacks sitting in segregated restaurants until being served or removed.
- 5. A law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African American suffrage.
- 8. The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.
- 9. A union formed by Cesar Chavez and others who gained rights and better treatment for migrant workers
- 10. who were the people supporting and participating in the boycott.
- 11. Group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation
- 12. how many days did the boycott last
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- 1. A federal law that authorized federal action against segregation in public accommodations, public facilities, and employment.
- 2. Primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation passed by Congress in the United States since Reconstruction following the American Civil War.
- 3. Nonviolent leader of the civil rights movement
- 6. refused to give up her bus seat
- 7. abolished racial discrimination in the United States from armed forces