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- 2. an American activist known for being the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana during the 20th century.
- 3. ________ The fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.
- 6. ________ led by civil rights pioneer Daisy Bates, these nine brave Arkansas teenagers broke through racial barriers to become the first black students to attend Little Rock High School.
- 9. ________ profilic anti-lynching journalist and Memphis suffragist
- 10. ________ was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
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- 1. ________ was an American botanist and inventor. He did research into alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes.
- 4. ________ civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of "people of color."
- 5. ________ Amendment that gave African Americans the right to vote.
- 7. ________ prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
- 8. ________ vs. Board of Education; was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.