Civil Rights Movement

3. This act was passed in congress in 1964 which prohibited discrimination in many settings.
4. This event gave the civil rights movement momentum which was to challenge and desegregate public transportation
5. This was a court ruling that ended up overturning the Plessy case and rules unconstitutional.
6. This man was the main organizer of the freedom rides.
11. organization that fought for the rights of African-Americans.
12. This amendment granted ex-slaves citizenship and equal protection.
13. This amendment made it legal for all American citizens to vote.
18. A church bombing which killed four little girls.
19. Fourteen year old boy who was beaten and shot because of flirting with a white cashier
21. He was a huge civil rights leader and started a nonviolent resistance.
22. This very prominent leader of the civil rights movement was shot dead on April 4,1968.
23. This amendment prohibited any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
24. NAACP lawyer who represented the children in the case of Brown V Board of education

1. This was King and SCLC opposed local laws that supported segregation and hundreds of demonstrators converged on the city to stop segregation
2. This was an interracial group of CORE members and college students who was testing the effectiveness of the supreme court decision which prohibited racial segregation in bus terminals.
7. This march included 200,000 blacks and whites and was the largest civil rights demonstration ever held in the U.S.
8. This was a group of 9 African American who was chosen to attend a all white High School in Little
9. This was a huge movement to end segregation between whites and blacks.
10. This famous letter was written by Martin Luther King while he was in jail stating why he believes in non violence protests.
14. This was a supreme court ruling that separated but equal facilities for different races are legal.
15. He was the first black man to enroll in a university in Mississippi.
16. This black female was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
17. This was a 1942 group that of Civil Rights activists which were located at a campus in Chicago.
20. This was a peaceful in N.C. which involved four African American men who wanted to sit where white people sat.
24. This man was the leader of nationalist and founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity.