Do You Know Your Civil Rights Movement History?

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  1. 3. Four young African-American girls were killed in this place by a bomb thrown by white supremacists.
  2. 5. It was known as this kind of Sunday as around 600 civil rights marchers walk to Selma, Alabama to Montgomery—the state’s capital—in protest of Black voter suppression. Local police block and brutally attack them.
  3. 6. Emmett Till was fourteen years old and brutally murdered for allegedly doing this in the presence of a white woman
  4. 9. This American artist painted six-year-old Ruby Bridges as she was escorted by four armed federal marshals to become the first student to integrate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. He titled his painting The Problem We All Live With (1964).
  5. 10. This governor stood in a doorway at the University of Alabama to block two Black students from registering. The standoff continues until President John F. Kennedy sends the National Guard to the campus.
  6. 12. It was in this city that Rosa Parks
  7. 13. This Supreme Court Case ended segregation in public schools
  8. 14. This U.S. President ended segregation in the Armed Services
  9. 16. This U.S. President signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
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  1. 1. Throughout 1961, Black and white activists, known as these riders, took bus trips through the American South to protest segregated bus terminals and attempted to use “whites-only” restrooms and lunch counters.
  2. 2. Dr. King wrote his most famous letter from a jail in this city.
  3. 4. This religious leader was assassinated during a rally by members of the Nation of Islam.
  4. 7. This Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man
  5. 8. It was at the March on Washington, a march for jobs and freedom, that Dr. King gave his famous speech about this.
  6. 10. Four African American college students in Greensboro, North Carolina refuse to leave a“whites only” lunch counter without being served in this store
  7. 11. The Little Rock Nine were blocked from integrating a public school in this state
  8. 15. This scholar coordinated nonviolent protests to protest segregation and discrimination