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- 8. The boycott lasted over a year. Finally, the Supreme Court ruled that the segregation of buses was unconstitutiona
- 9. opened public facilities to people of all races, created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to protect people from discrimination in the workplace.
- 12. CORE began these nonviolent measures to desegregate buses
- 16. The boting rights act of 1965 banned this
- 18. a female activist helped to organize students from the North to come to the South and help register blacks to vote
- 19. The march on wahinton was famous for this speech
- 20. The name of the Women's Rights Movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s
- 21. M.L kings method of nonviolent protests
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- 1. Abolished the poll tax in federal elections
- 2. Alabama troopers used brutal force to break up a march to the state capitol. The National Guard was called in to protect the prote
- 3. another method used by civil rights leaders. Local authorities often responded with violence. The brutality used against protesters was seen on televisions across the country. It disgusted the public and increased sympathy for the movement.
- 4. Violent methods were used to break up protests in this city
- 5. a popular way to protest segregation. African Americans would sit down at whites-only lunch counters and wait to be served.
- 6. This high school was desegragted when president Eisenhower ordered federal troops into the school
- 7. a refusal to purchase or partake in an event because of political opposition
- 10. Branch of government that got the civil rights movement started in the 1950’s
- 11. to pressure the government to enforce the ruling. Black and white activists traveled on buses together to segregated stations in the South.
- 13. The brown case overturned this principle that allowed segregation
- 14. She began boycott in maycolm alabama
- 15. The 24th amendment got rid of this
- 17. the separation of people based on race