Civil Rights

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  1. 7. President who ordered federal troops to protect the Little Rock Nine and a new civil rights agenda
  2. 8. Leader of the Nation of Islam and another major civil rights leader who was assassinated Feb. 1965
  3. 10. Means of protest MLK always advocated for
  4. 13. Organization led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  5. 14. Laws made in the South during Reconstruction to marginalize black people
  6. 15. Member and future chair of SNCC who coined the term Black Power
  7. 16. The protest movement led by MIA after Parks was arrested
  8. 21. First black students of an integrated high school in the South
  9. 22. Day in Alabama when marchers to Montgomery were beaten by police
  10. 25. Federal Attorney General who helped protect the Freedom Riders best he could
  11. 26. _______ Airmen who became the first black military aviators in the Army Air Corps
  12. 27. Act that was passed days after King's assassination that prevented housing discrimination based on race
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  1. 1. Amendment that gave Black Americans equal protection under the law
  2. 2. Woman who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in 1955
  3. 3. _________ Summer; Another name for the Summer of 1964
  4. 4. Name for the young men and women who rode buses in the South to protest segregated bus terminals
  5. 5. ___________ vs. Board of Education; ruling that made segregation unconstitutional as separate is not equal
  6. 6. Student organization focused on protesting civil rights abuses
  7. 9. State where the Freedom Riders narrowly survived a bomb attack on their bus
  8. 11. Organization who defended the Freedom Riders in court for their "crimes"
  9. 12. American right that the Civil Rights Act of 1957 attempted to protect
  10. 14. President who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, continuing the work of JFK
  11. 17. Protest movement that took place at lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina
  12. 18. Supreme Court case that declared segregation legal
  13. 19. _________ Rights Act of 1965 that banned literacy tests and ensured election integrity
  14. 20. Governor of Alabama in the 1960s who opposed desegregation
  15. 23. One of the most famous protests of the movement, where the protestors marched to
  16. 24. "I have a ___________" speech delivered by King in the March on Washington