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- 2. Was a decision by the U.S. Supreme court that racial quotas were impermissible.
- 3. The principal channel of student commitment to the civil rights movement.
- 4. US Supreme court case that deals with the busing of students to promote integration into the schools to provide equal opportunity.(1971)
- 5. servitude
- 6. Stste and local laws that enforce racial segregation in southern states.
- 11. An activist in the civil rights movement that is most famously known for her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 12. The first African American to play in Major League Baseball
- 14. the right to vote not denied by race or color or previous condition or servitude
- 16. A case that was heard before the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama that stated that the bus segregation is uncoinstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment (1956)
- 17. A case in Florida where the Father of the child that was given custody to the mother after their divorce, tried to petition to get custody of the child after the mother was living with an African-American man, the Father was denied because there was no evidence that the mother was unfit to care for the child.(1984)
- 20. A U.S. Supreme court case that stated that there was a statuatory scheme in Alabama of imposed Alimony on Husbands but not wives and was unconstitutional for equal protection.
- 23. Clause, No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United states; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
- 24. Supreme court case that ordered immediate desegregation of the public schools in the south.(1969)
- 26. A Supreme Court case stating that any laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are equal in quality(1954)
- 27. A lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
- 28. A case in the Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality (1896)
- 29. The practice of making a symbolic effort to be inclusive with members of minority groups.
- 30. Abolished Slavery and
- 31. A Baptist minister and a Civil Rights Leader
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- 1. an African-American civil rights organization the SCLC
- 7. The clause that states that the U.S. Congress shall have power to regulate commerce with foreign countries, various states, and with the Indian Tribes.
- 8. a form of protest in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met.
- 9. A letter written from the Birmingham City jail by Martin Luther King Jr. and states that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws and take direct action rather than waiting potentially forever for justice to come through the courts.
- 10. A case that proceed to be an order by the Supreme court to desegregate the public parks and the bathing beaches because it was uncounstitutional.(1955)
- 13. A Musilum Minister and Civil rights leader
- 15. Citizenship rights and equal protection under the law
- 18. A Supreme court case that ruled that administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes.
- 19. It was a civil rights protest to where people refused to ride the city buses in Montgomery, Alabama to protest segregated seating.(1955-1956)
- 21. the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest.
- 22. This was a case of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that the laws that banned interracial marriage to be Uncoinstitutional under the 14th amendment(1967)
- 25. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.