Clone of AP Government Civil Rights History

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  1. 2. President of the United States who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
  2. 4. City where Bull Connor called out the use of police dogs, fire hoses, and cattle prods to stop demonstrations.
  3. 5. The city where Dr. King was murdered.
  4. 7. One of the most prominent members of Civil Rights Movement, led the Selma March
  5. 12. He was a young man from Chicago who's lynching in Mississippi sparked national interest in racial problems in the South.
  6. 14. Wife of slain Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
  7. 17. This demonstration was held to show support for the passing of the Civil Rights Bill.
  8. 18. The result of the ruling in the Plessy v. Ferguson case.
  9. 20. He was president at the time of the March on Washington
  10. 22. Dean at Howard University who aimed to create top notch lawyers for the movement, helped train Thurgood Marshall
  11. 24. The protests of the segregation of interstate busing.
  12. 26. Leader of the independence movement in India that paved the way for the Civil Rights Movement.
  13. 27. Militant style political group that was founded in 1966.
  14. 28. City in the South that erupted in violence after a march for voting rights was met by violence from the police.
  15. 29. Strong speaker on the topic of Black Separatism and the Nation of Islam.
  16. 30. The response to the arrest of a black man who died in police custody, violence erupted in this neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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  1. 1. The reaction to the civil disobedience of Rosa Parks.
  2. 3. The protest of the segregated lunch counters.
  3. 6. Civil Rights group head by Dr. Martin Luther King.
  4. 8. City in the South where the enrollment of 9 black teenagers led to the calling out of the National Guard to block them out of the school.
  5. 9. The breaking of a law because you feel it is unjust.
  6. 10. Amendment that was basis for many civil rights court decisions
  7. 11. Laws that segregated the South.
  8. 13. Supreme Court Case that overturned "Separate But Equal".
  9. 15. Attorney who won the Brown v. Board case and went on to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
  10. 16. One of the defining moments of the movement was when she refused to get up from her seat on the bus.
  11. 19. First African American to play in the National League in baseball.
  12. 21. The man accused and convicted of the death of Martin Luther King Jr.
  13. 23. Founded in 1942, the Congress of Racial Equality.
  14. 25. The legal organization that would take up Civil Rights cases and take them to court.