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- 2. a boycott in Alabama- bus system in response to the racial segregation of city buses
- 8. group founded in 1962 to register southern African Americans to vote
- 10. well-known supporter of the Nation of Islam and black leader, he spoke in support of black separatism, black pride, and the use of violence for self-protection
- 11. segregation by law
- 12. a political party created in 1964, during the civil rights movement, with the purpose of winning seats at the 1964 DNC
- 13. American civil rights leader, minister, and politician; he was an adviser to MLK
- 15. leader of India's struggle for independence from Great Britain; he taught nonviolent resistance
- 17. a group formed in 1966, inspired by the idea of Black Power that provided aid to black neighborhoods; often thought of as radical or violent
- 20. African-American students who first integrated Central High School in 1957
- 24. a volunteer project in which college students spent their summer vacation in Mississippi, registering African Americans to vote
- 25. activists who challenged segregation in bus terminals in the South in 1961
- 26. American jurist; he was the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court
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- 1. civil rights activist in the US; he was an important leader of the black nationalism movement in the 1960s
- 3. head of the NAACP in Mississippi; he was shot and killed in front of his home by the KKK
- 4. committee appointed to study the causes of urban rioting after violence in Detroit in July 1967; it placed the blame on poverty and discrimination
- 5. a group formed in Georgia in 1957 to organize civil rights protest activities
- 6. programs that gave preference to minorities and women in hiring and admissions
- 7. an expansion of the civil rights movement that tried to raise awareness about poverty among people of all races
- 9. a movement in the late 1960s that advocated more forceful measures to achieve civil rights and supported the idea that African Americans had to depend on themselves to solve problems
- 14. banned states from taxing citizens to vote in elections
- 16. American baseball player; he was the first black player in the major leagues
- 18. student civil rights organization in the late 1960s
- 19. American politician and civil rights activist; he participated in the major protests and sit-ins of the 1960s and became the head of SNCC; he was elected to Congress in 1986
- 21. an organization dedicated to the practice of nonviolent protest
- 22. segregation that exists through custom and practice rather than by law
- 23. American civil rights activist; she was arrested in 1955 after refusing to give her seat on a public bus to a white man