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  1. 1. Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968
  2. 5. It was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism socialism and armed self-defense particularly against police brutality
  3. 6. the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional
  4. 7. Its members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and Black Republican leaders
  5. 9. March 7th 1965 around 600 people crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in an attempt to begin the Selma to Montgomery march
  6. 13. of violent confrontations between Los Angeles police and residents of Watts and other predominantly African American neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles
  7. 18. the separation or isolation of a race class or ethnic group by enforced or voluntary residence in a restricted area, by barriers to social intercourse by separate educational facilities or by other discriminatory means
  8. 19. civil rights organization in the United States formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois Mary White Ovington Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Well
  9. 20. the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional
  10. 22. the mother of the civil rights movement" Rosa Parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery Alabama
  11. 23. political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of MontgomeryAlabama
  12. 25. a movement in support of rights and political power for black people especially prominent in the US in the 1960s and 1970s
  13. 26. a series of violent clashes during which mobs of U.S. servicemen off-duty police officers and civilians brawled with young Latinos and other minorities in Los Angeles
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  1. 2. he first African American students to enter Little Rock's Central High School
  2. 3. chosen identity for many Mexican Americans in the United States
  3. 4. labor leader and civil rights activist
  4. 8. American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election
  5. 10. a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine
  6. 11. a social and political movement in the United States inspired by prior acts of resistance among people of Mexican descent
  7. 12. a religious and political organization founded in the United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930
  8. 14. 14-year-old African American boy who was abducted tortured and lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman Carolyn Bryant in her family's grocery store
  9. 15. political movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish institutional racial segregation discrimination and disenfranchisement throughout the United States
  10. 16. civil rights protest that started in 1960 when young African American students staged a sit in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro North Carolina and refused to leave after being denied service
  11. 17. state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States
  12. 21. the ancestral home of the Aztec peoples
  13. 24. African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement