The Civil Rights Movement

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  1. 1. This act was passed in 1964 and it outlawed discrimination.
  2. 4. The location of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.
  3. 10. the term for the keeping of races or ethnic groups apart.
  4. 11. The type of tests African-Americans had to take in order to be able to vote.
  5. 12. The state in which Freedom Riders were met with severe resistance and were beaten while the police watched.
  6. 15. The way MLK encouraged protestors to act when fighting for civil rights.
  7. 17. This person was responsible for desegregating Major League Baseball.
  8. 18. This civil rights leader led the Montgomery Bus Boycott, promoting peaceful disobedience, and later won the Nobel Peace prize in 1964.
  9. 19. Commonly seen in the south, this type of segregation was enforced by laws.
  10. 20. The court case ________ v. Ferguson originally ruled that separate but equal was constitutional, but would eventually be overturned.
  11. 21. Executive Order 9981 was passed by President __________, which desegregated the military.
  12. 23. the practice of discriminating against and segregating black people in the south, which became popular after the Civil War.
  13. 25. This man influenced the desegregation of the military.
  14. 27. Leaders of this student group led sit-ins in Greensboro.
  15. 28. The civil rights group that was founded in 1942 and sponsored the Freedom Rides on busses throughout the south.
  16. 29. The ______ v. Board of Ed case declared segregation in schools unconstitutional.
  17. 30. This amendment was passed in 1964 and abolished poll taxes in national elections.
  18. 31. This civil rights group helped fight legal battles to gain more rights for African Americans.
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  1. 2. She began the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to move her seat.
  2. 3. The ____ to Montgomery marches were a series of civil rights protest marches in 1965 to support voting rights.
  3. 5. This event took place during the summer of 1964 when hundreds of college students tried to register African American voters in the south and were met with violence.
  4. 6. This act was passed in 1965 and outlawed discriminatory voting practices.
  5. 7. This president passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
  6. 8. This 14-year-old African American boy was violently killed in Mississippi for talking to a white woman.
  7. 9. This president called for civil rights legislation before he was assassinated in 1963.
  8. 13. The most racially divided city in the south that closed parks, playgrounds, and pools to avoid desegregation.
  9. 14. Nine black students enrolled in a white high school here in Arkansas after desegregation.
  10. 16. This civil rights lawyer was the first black justice on the Supreme Court.
  11. 22. This African-American civil rights activist supported violence when protesting against discrimination.
  12. 24. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on _____.
  13. 26. The term used to describe segregation without laws, which was common in the north.