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- 2. 8 year old in Topeka, Kansas, her father sued the school system in Brown vs the Board of Education.
- 6. African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist, preached black supremacy and violence against discrimination.
- 7. American author,activist, and civil rights leader, widow of iconic civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
- 8. National icon in the history of American progressiveness, leader of the Africa-American civil rights movement.
- 10. Black pastor and one of the founders of the Congress for Racial Equality in 1958
- 11. Founder of the first branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Brevard County, Florida.
- 13. Civil rights activist who worked for 3 decades to seek justice for the murder of her civil rights activist husband in 1963.
- 14. Woman who refused to give her seat up to a white passanger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
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- 1. 34th President of the US from 1953-1961, explained in his first State of Union address his support of the civil rights movement.
- 2. A group of African-American sstudents enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957
- 3. Executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) serving from 1931-1955.
- 4. 33rd President of the US from 1945-1953, wanted integration and equal rights for African-Americans.
- 5. 14 year old African-American boy from Chicago, Illinois killed near Money, Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman
- 9. Lawyer who won 29 of the 32 cases he argued in front of the supreme court, including the case Brown vs. the Board of Education.
- 10. Succeeded James W. Johnson as the head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) serving from 1931-1955
- 12. African-American civil rights activist from Mississippi involved in the efforts to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi.