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- 4. Civil Rights leader, known for fighting for colored equality, was for peaceful protests.
- 6. Movement in the 1950's and 1960's to get equality for colored people.
- 7. was a civil rights group that was created on the University of Chicago.
- 9. Peaceful protests where people would go and sit at lunch counters that said white only an the colored would sit there.
- 10. to grant ex slaves citizenship, and equal protection and due process.
- 12. when know colored people rode buses in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 14. 9 colored students that went to a high school in Arkansas that was segregated heavily.
- 16. it made it so blacks could not vote and kept segregation in the south.
- 18. When 4 young girls died in a church bombing.
- 19. First day of the March from Selma to Montgomery, but where attacked attacked only 6 blocks from where they started.
- 20. Supreme court ruled separate but equal facilities for diff races are legal.
- 22. known for not giving her seat up to a white man, sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 23. Poll tax outlawed, black voter registration increased.
- 24. was a 14 year old kid that was killed on August 24, 1955 for supposedly flirting with a white cashier.
- 25. kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.
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- 1. Civil rights activists that rode buses threw the south.
- 2. Organization that fought for rights of african-americans, oldest civil rights organization in the USA.
- 3. no fighting, peaceful
- 5. MLK wrote this letter in a jail, was written in the margins of a newspaper.
- 8. Knowing a law and violating the law on purpose.
- 11. Peaceful protests with many people involved.
- 13. they managed the sit-ins protests help overturn segregation laws in cities.
- 15. a white supremacist group that was held accountable for many deaths of African Americans
- 17. being able to do god given rights from birth.
- 21. peaceful walking for the civil rights movement.