the clues of the civil rights movement

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  1. 3. In 1890, which was the first state in the Union to grant women the right to vote?
  2. 7. The Little Rock _________ was a group of African American students who became the first to desegregate Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
  3. 8. Rosa Parks’s arrest in Montgomery, Alabama, led to a crippling boycott of the city’s
  4. 10. A milestone for the American civil rights movement, the Civil Rights Act was signed into law by which U.S. president?
  5. 11. Who was the 14-year-old boy who was murdered by two white men in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white cashier named Carolyn Bryant?
  6. 12. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed in ______.
  7. 15. The FBI declared which group a communist organization and an enemy of the U.S. government?
  8. 17. What did the American civil rights movement accomplish?
  9. 18. george who in 1963 which politician personally stood in a school doorway to prevent Black students from entering?
  10. 19. Dr. King believed in using peaceful demonstrations to get the government to listen to the demands of the Civil Rights Movement. He was influenced by _____.
  11. 23. After the Civil War, ____________ were used to legalize segregation in the South.
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  1. 1. African Americans wanted segregation to end, so they started non-violent, peaceful protests which was the start of the _________.
  2. 2. i made a dream speech
  3. 4. This is the term for unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of race, gender, age, religion, or ethnicity.
  4. 5. Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees due process and equal protection rights to all citizens?Montgomery, Alabama
  5. 6. Rosa Parks's arrest after her refusal to move to the back of a bus triggered a citywide boycott of what city's bus system?
  6. 9. A 2022 federal act that defines lynching as a hate crime was named for which person?
  7. 13. African Americans refusing to use buses in a southern city, sparked by a woman who refused to give up her seat on the bus. This was a protest against segregation in the public transit (bus) system.
  8. 14. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) overturned which discriminatory policy?
  9. 16. On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of what Washington, D.C. location?
  10. 20. Rather than adhere to nonviolence, which leader famously pursued civil rights “by any means necessary”?
  11. 21. Which group did Dr. King help found?
  12. 22. rosa who didn't get off the bus
  13. 24. What civil rights organization was led by a young man named John Lewis?