The Civil Rights Movement: Caleb Pierre

1. largest civil rights demonstration
6. 54 mile march to support black voter registration
9. law that forbade racial discrimination
10. Mlk's most famous speech
11. oldest civil rights organization that fought for the rights of African-Americans
12. 9 African American students who were chosen to attend an all white school the national guard tried to block them
14. famous letter mlk wrote
16. a black women who refused to move to the back of the bus for a white man
19. apart of black panthers was very radical
22. violating a law that is unjust and willing to accept the consequences
23. separation of races in a country community or establishment
24. going on a bus to different places to protest segregation
25. the death of the civil rights leader
26. leader of the NAACP
28. poll taxes were outlawed

1. the main civil rights leader who used peaceful protesting to get civil rights
2. black voter registration barriers were made illegal
3. project that sent college kids to the south to help blacks vote
4. bombing of civil rights meeting place and church
5. when the police attacked marchers that were going to Montgomery
7. NAACP lawyer who represented the children in Brown vs Board later became first black supreme court
8. black teenager who was beaten and killed for reportedly flirting with a white cashier
13. protesting at a white only restaurant or other place by sitting
15. walking somewhere while protesting peacefully
17. managed the sit in protests
18. amendment to the constitution that grants ex-slaves citizenship
20. 4 black students arranged a sit in at a white only bar
21. one of the most racist cities in Alabama
27. nickname for Birmingham