Civil Rights

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  1. 2. In 1964, when blacks and whites together challenged segregation and led a massive drive to register blacks to vote.
  2. 4. Nonviolent protests in which a person sits and refuses to leave.
  3. 5. taking a stand against rules based on belifs. By not using the product or spending money on the product
  4. 6. three marches in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement
  5. 9. Baptist minister and civil rights leader opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance
  6. 10. Led by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, they believed that racism was an inherent part of the U.S. capitalist society and were militant revolutionaries
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  1. 1. held in 1963 to show support for the Civil Rights Bill in Congress. Martin Luther King gave his famous "I have a dream..." speech. 250,000 people attended the rally
  2. 3. United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery
  3. 7. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  4. 8. Student Nonviolent Cordinating Committee