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- 5. A black student who tried to enroll in the University of Mississippi. After he was prevented from doing so, Robert F. Kennedy sent troops to enforce his ban.
- 6. A form of peaceful protest which consists of occupying and refusing to leave from a segregated establishment.
- 7. One of the things the March on Washington was about.
- 8. The name of the rights that a police officer must inform a suspect of after his arrest.
- 9. One of the most famous leaders of the black power movement and a minister in the Nation of Islam.
- 12. Civil rights activists who rode on segregated interstate buses as a peaceful protest.
- 14. Largest political demonstration in all of American history.
- 15. The title of Martin Luther King Jr.'s amount 1963 speech.
- 16. African-American civil rights organization that spiraled into black supremacy by the late 1960s.
- 17. One of the things the March on Washington was about.
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- 1. A black power political party with Marxist ideals, later dismantled by the FBI.
- 2. A defense of "nonviolent civil disobedience" written by Martin Luther King Jr.
- 3. 1964 event in which blacks were granted voter education by volunteer groups.
- 4. The leader of the Nation of Islam.
- 10. African-American civil rights organization founded by James Farmer.
- 11. Supreme Court Chief Justice who was responsible for many civil rights reforms during the 1960s.
- 13. SNCC leader who brought black power to the organization.
