Civil Rights Movement:Katie Veenstra

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  1. 2. Due to the Voting Rights Act of _____, southern black voter registration rose from 7% to 67%
  2. 3. MLKJ most famous speech "I Have a ______"
  3. 6. Civil Rights Act of _____, congress passed a law forbidding racial discrimination in public settings
  4. 8. Famous letter by MLKJ was written in this jail cell
  5. 13. 9 African american students attended an all white school in this town
  6. 14. served as a NAACP lawyer in the Brown vs Board court case
  7. 18. How many girls were killed in the 16th street Baptist Church Bombing?
  8. 20. Refused to give up her bus seat to a white man
  9. 21. this amendment granted ex-slaves citizenship
  10. 23. Deliberately breaking the law while accepting the consequences
  11. 26. Person responsible for the death of MLKJ
  12. 27. MLKJ used these methods in leading movements
  13. 29. African Americans began bus ______ to fight for the desegregation of buses
  14. 30. This committee organized the sit-in protests in Greensboro
  15. 31. Organization that fought for the rights of African Americans
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  1. 1. This executive order integrated the armed forces
  2. 4. Favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination
  3. 5. This amendment removed poll tax that kept blacks from voting
  4. 7. These law were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation
  5. 9. 14 year old killed for flirting with a cashier
  6. 10. How many students were murdered in the Mississippi Freedom Summer?
  7. 11. main leader in the Civil Rights Movement
  8. 12. Organized freedom rides with the help CORE
  9. 15. separation of races
  10. 16. This supreme court case ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional
  11. 17. White supremacist group that violently opposed civil rights
  12. 19. Governor of Arkansas that ordered the National Guard to escort the 9 students into the Little Rock school
  13. 22. 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery, AL. that resulted in many injuries
  14. 24. Leader of the Mississippi NAACP who was shot the same night Kennedy gave his speech
  15. 25. Opposite of MLKJ; he used violent actions in a fight for racial distinctiveness
  16. 28. founded by a group of civil rights advocates, this program marked the beginning of a mass movement for civil rights