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- 4. Several community programs aimed at protecting African American neighborhoods from police brutality.
- 5. after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
- 7. A lawyer who Used the courts to end Jim Crow and desegregation in the U.S.
- 9. the Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
- 10. A set of laws in the South that enforced racial segregation.
- 13. At first believed in violent approches but later on changed his mind, which lead to his death.
- 16. Six whites and seven blacks boarded two buses bound for New Orleans.
- 17. rumors that was spread by a female of a boy whistleing at her.
- 18. Believed in none violent approches, and received the Peace Prize for his leadership.
- 20. Segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional in a 1954 ruling.
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- 1. In the deeply divided South, he bravely spoke out against racism.
- 2. Two returning Vietnam War veterans were welcomed home during a police raid on an illegal after-hours drinking club.
- 3. "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever"
- 6. While protesters attempted to march peacefully, state troopers beat them violently.
- 8. Central High School desegregated that welcomed its first Black students.
- 11. The first day of school for her was escorted by four armed federal marshals.
- 12. It was one of the most costly and largest urban rebellions of the Civil Rights era due to its duration and cost of property damage over six days.
- 14. As a protester, he was against lynching, Jim Crow laws, and racial discrimination on educational and employment levels.
- 15. There were over 200,000 participants in the 1963 march for jobs and freedom to demand civil and economic rights for African Americans.
- 19. After refusing to give up her bus seat, she was called the "mother of the civil rights movement."