Civil Rights Movement Review

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  1. 4. The Fifteenth Amendment states that the right of people to ____ cannot be denied because of their race
  2. 5. Support for the Civil Rights Movement increased after the brutal murder of Emmett ______.
  3. 10. Time period from the end of the Civil War (1865) to 1877 in which the country tried to rebuild itself after the Civil War and promote the rights of African Americans
  4. 11. This Constitutional amendment outlawed slavery
  5. 15. "_________ tests" often had unclear questions with possible multiple meanings (ambiguity) to try to disqualify certain people from voting
  6. 16. ___________ Clauses were parts of laws that exempted people from "literacy tests" and poll taxes if their male ancestors had the ability to vote before the Civil War
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  1. 1. This form of media became popular after World War II; it helped spread awareness of issues going on.
  2. 2. The decision in the 1954 court case ______ v. Board of Education stated that the logic of "Separate but equal" was not practical
  3. 3. Denial of mortgages to a particular neighborhood
  4. 6. This organization was formed to help African Americans obtain equal rights and treatment
  5. 7. The decision in the 1896 court case Plessy v. Ferguson was that "_______ but equal" was legal
  6. 8. Sit-ins, the Selma March, the 1963 March on Washington, Freedom Rides, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott were all examples of non-violent methods for _______.
  7. 9. The 1964 Civil Rights Act made racial ______________ in public places illegal.
  8. 12. The Fourteenth Amendment states that people are entitled to _____ protection of the laws
  9. 13. After 1877, states in the South passed laws to try to ______ the rights of African Americans by developing rules and tactics that would attempt to scoot around the protections promised in the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
  10. 14. The public killing of an individual who has not received any due process
  11. 16. The _____ Book was created to help inform African Americans of places they could go
  12. 17. The Little ____ Nine integrated a high school in Arkansas as the US Army protected their entrance into the building