The Civil Rights Movement: Jill Erickson

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  1. 3. sometimes called the Bogside Massacre – was an incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a peaceful protest march against internment.
  2. 4. the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart.
  3. 5. city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the third-largest city by population in North Carolina and the county seat and largest city in Guilford County and the surrounding Piedmont Triad metropolitan region
  4. 10. an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination.
  5. 11. one of the most important organizations of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. It emerged from a student meeting organized by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in April 1960
  6. 14. Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States
  7. 18. Someone who kills a person either for themselves or others
  8. 19. beginning of a mass movement for civil rights mainly northern and white founders
  9. 21. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
  10. 22. The act of notdiscriminated against people. Having combined things
  11. 24. militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs.
  12. 25. volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi.
  13. 28. was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist.
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  1. 1. Woman who refused to move to the back of a bus for a white man
  2. 2. The right for everyone to have a say in who controls their country
  3. 6. Ruled segregation in public schools unconstitutional
  4. 7. Organization that fought for the rights of African Americans
  5. 8. an executive order issued on July 26, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman. It abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services.
  6. 9. the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest.
  7. 12. Medgar American civil rights activist from Mississippi who worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi and to enact social justice and voting rights. He was murdered by a segregationist
  8. 13. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States located north of Oregon, west of Idaho, and south of the Canadian
  9. 15. Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.
  10. 16. Bombingham is a nickname for Birmingham, Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement due to the 50 dynamite explosions that occurred in the city between 1947 and 1965.
  11. 17. nine African American students who were chosen to attend the all-white central highschool
  12. 20. The speech Martin Luther King wrote and spoke
  13. 23. Black man murdered by two white men for flirting with a grocery clerk
  14. 26. Well known civil rights leader
  15. 27. a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".