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- 2. This is when a restaurant denied service to colored people so many of them began to group up and protest in the establishment
- 3. when colleges and businesses would set aside spots or positions for colored people
- 6. Famous civil rights movement speech wrote by MLK
- 7. X He took over as the leader of the civil rights movement when MLKJR. was assassinated and changed the way they protested
- 8. He was assasinated in front of his motel by James Earl Ray who was standing across the street in building
- 11. This was a series of protest and actions that pushed for equal rights for all people
- 12. this was the group that organized the sit ins for the peaceful civil rights protests
- 14. He was a leader in the fight for India's freedom and was a very wise man
- 15. a colored boy who was killed by 2 men who didn't approve of him flirting with his wife
- 16. This was an organization that helped towards the advancement of colored people and their rights
- 19. This was the percent of colored people that used the buses as transportation in Montgomery,Alabama
- 20. This was an executive order by President Truman orderig that the armed forces stop segregation in barracks and entire army
- 23. This was a supreme case that allowed segregation as long as the facilities were equal
- 24. He was the leader of the Mississippi NAACP and was shot outside of his house on the night of president Kennedy's address to the nation on race
- 25. When many colored people decided to not use the transportation of public busses until they were de-segregated
- 26. this outlawed the poll tax against colored citizens
- 27. When a peaceful protest was attacked by police on the Edmund Pettus
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- 1. This town was hit with many racially induced bombings including a bombing on a church that killed 4 girls on the steps
- 4. This program was the beginning of the mass movement for civil rights, this was started by white northerners
- 5. This was an act that gave blacks the rights to vote in 1965
- 9. This was when 1000 college students came down to help colored people to gain their voting rights
- 10. The great civil rights leader who was assassinated at the age of 39
- 11. knowingly and deliberattly violating a law that is perceiving to be unjust and willingly accepting consequences for such actions
- 13. This was the act that forbid segregation in schools and public work places
- 17. The intense separation of colored people in the deep south in the 1960's
- 18. These were the first 9 colored students that attempted to begin the integration into school systems
- 21. I was the first Black supreme court justice and represented the children in the Brown vs Board of Education case
- 22. Would not give up her seat on the bus for a white man