The Civil Rights Movement: Camden Courtney
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- 2. one of the most famous civil rights activists of all time who wrote the "I Have A Dream" speech
- 4. 3rd grader who's parents sued the school board to get their daughter admitted to an all-white school closer to her home
- 5. used violent action to fight for equal rights for African Americans
- 6. fourteen-year-old that was murdered for reportedly flirting with a white cashier at a grocery store
- 7. MLK preferred and stressed this kind of protest to those fighting for civil rights
- 8. place where four black students sat at a segregated lunch counter to protest segregation
- 9. african american students were chosen to attend an all-white high school
- 13. one of the Civil Rights Movement goals to end the separation of black and white people
- 14. man who organized freedom rides during the 1960's
- 16. where MLK was put in response to white ministers who urged him to stop causing disturbances
- 17. not protected under the law such as marches, speeches, and petition drives
- 20. place MLK stayed before his assassination in Memphis
- 21. refused to move to the back of the bus so a white person may sit
- 22. founded in Chicago which marked the beginning of a mass movement for civil rights
- 25. african americans refused to ride the buses in order to desegregate buses
- 26. put the sit-in protests into action and their success helped overturn segregation laws
- 27. organization that fought for the rights of african americans by addressing issues in schools and voting laws
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- 1. the ruling of this organization overturned bus segregation
- 2. leader of mississippi NAACP who was murdered
- 3. nickname for the march from Selma to Montgomery due to the deaths and violence
- 10. NAACP lawer, first black supreme court justice
- 11. separation of races (black and white)
- 12. the 24th amendment outlawed this
- 15. used to block the entrance to the school to prevent the students from entering and harming the little rock nine
- 18. man who killed MLK
- 19. governor of Arkansas during the Little Rock Nine school desegregation
- 23. those who voiced their opinions against segregation
- 24. nickname for Birmingham Alabama after bombings