Violent Conflicts During the Civil Rights Era

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  1. 3. Neighborhood in Detroit where 60,000 impoverished African Americans lived
  2. 5. Juries in the two trials of Medgar Evers killer
  3. 9. On Sunday, March 7, 1965, some 600 protesters began a march from Selma to _____ to demand voting rights
  4. 10. Number of young girls killed in the bombing of a black church in Birmingham, Alabama
  5. 13. New Jersey City where racial rioting broke out in July of 1967
  6. 14. Their investigation found that three college students who were registering African Americans to vote were released by the police to the Ku Klux Klan
  7. 15. Mississippi NAACP leader killed outside his home on June 11, 1963
  8. 16. Neighborhood in Los Angeles where riots broke out on August 11, 1965
  9. 17. Name given to violent encounter between state troopers and protesters in Selma, Alabama
  10. 19. Location in Selma where protesters were met by state troopers wielding whips, clubs, and tear gas
  11. 20. Number of dead as a result of the riots in South Central Los Angeles
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  1. 1. Civil rights worker registering African Americans to vote when they were picked up by local police then released to the Ku Klux Klan
  2. 2. Ten days after "Bloody Sunday", Congress took up a bill that became the _____
  3. 4. Medgar Evers' funeral was held here
  4. 6. State where "freedom riders" met violent resistance and one bus was firebombed
  5. 7. Number of "freedom riders" buses
  6. 8. In April 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., began a campaign of _____ and other nonviolent actions in Birmingham, Alabama.
  7. 11. Civil rights worker registering African Americans to vote when they were picked up by local police then released to the Ku Klux Klan
  8. 12. Civil rights worker registering African Americans to vote when they were picked up by local police then released to the Ku Klux Klan
  9. 18. Members of this group bombed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama