Black Power Movement - Focus on Florida

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  1. 4. the strong desire for civil rights in Florida was partly in reaction to this harsh system.
  2. 6. Because of Harry T.Moore's efforts, a higher percentage of African-Americans were ______________________ to vote in Florida.
  3. 8. this state denied African Americans their voting rights and limited their economic opportunities.
  4. 10. African-American teacher and school principal
  5. 11. this president pushed the Civil Rights bill of 1964 through congress.
  6. 13. African-American author who grew up in Eatonville, Florida
  7. 14. In May, 1956 two African American female students refused to give up their seats at the front of the bus.
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  1. 1. established to improve its segregated schools.
  2. 2. a local NAACP leader that took charge of the boycott of the city's buses in Tallahassee.
  3. 3. played an important role in the struggle for civil rights even before the 1950s.
  4. 5. wrote the poem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing."
  5. 7. rioting rocked this city's 400th anniversary.
  6. 9. successfully lead the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
  7. 12. a civil rights organization that led demonstrations and marches against lynching and racial injustice.