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- 4. the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart
- 6. an organization, managed the sit-in protests and their success helped overturn segregation laws in many cities
- 8. Leader of the Mississippi NAACP was shot outside his home on the same night that President Kennedy addressed the nation on race, asking,"Are we to say to the world... that this is a land of the free except for Negroes"
- 10. key milestone of the Civil Rights Movement; Congress passed law forbidding racial discrimination in public accommodations, schools, and employment
- 12. blacks rode buses to the South to protest bus station segregation; at each bus station, riders would attempt to desegregate by going into whites-only waiting rooms to use whites-only restrooms and lunch counters
- 14. Poll tax outlawed(Which had been used to prevent blacks from voting); black voter registration increased
- 15. served as an NAACP lawyer who represented the children in the case; would later become the first black Supreme Court Justice appointed by LBJ
- 16. the arrest of Rosa Parks prompted 50 black leaders to meet in a Montgomery church to discuss their response to Rosa Parks being arrested. They agreed to boycott the city bus system, an effective tactic since blacks made up 60-70% of total ridership
- 17. constitutional amendment that granted ex-slaves citizenship; guaranteed equal protection and due process
- 19. SCLC staged a boycott of the offending businesses and organized sit-ins and marches, billy clubs, police dogs, and fire hoses were used against protesters. After 5 days, 2,500 protesters fill the jails
- 22. organization that fought for the rights of African-Americans
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- 1. movement's goals were desegregation, voting rights, and equality of opportunity in education, housing, and employment
- 2. 9 African-American students, 6 girls and 3 boys, were chosen to attend the all-white Central H.S. in Little Rock, Arkansas in the fall of 1957
- 3. project that gathered college students from across the country to go to Mississippi to help register blacks to vote; 3 students were murdered that summer and many black homes and churches were burned; caused a national outrage
- 4. 4 little girls were killed; Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley
- 5. Supreme Court ruled that separate but equal facilities for different races are legal
- 7. knowingly and deliberately violating a law that is perceived to be unjust and willingly accepting the consequences for such action
- 9. President Truman issued executive order 9981 requiring integration in the armed forces
- 11. 14 years old, visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, on August 24, 1955, when he reportedly flirted with a white cashier at a grocery store, 4 days later he was kidnapped and beaten by 2 white men then shot in the head
- 13. founded by a group of civil rights advocates on the Univ. of Chicago campus
- 18. in December 1955, I refused to move to the of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama; I was then arrested
- 20. I was a Civil Rights leader that brought a new tactic to the movement: nonviolent resistance.
- 21. using peaceful means rather than force, especially to bring about political or social change