Civil Rights Movement
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____ The organization that sponsored the Montgomery bus boycott
____ Type of segregation supported by law
____ One of the 9 members of the “Little Rock 9;” first to integrate the public school system
____ Type of segregation based on custom or tradition; a fact of life
____ The man who assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis
____ Leader of the Civil Rights movement
____ Method of civil rights protest in which African Americans would sit at lunch counters until closing time
____ Birmingham’s Public Safety Commissioner who used police dogs and fire hoses on protesters.
____ Organization founded in the 1940’s by James Farmer and others to bring an end to racial injustice
____ Banned literacy tests and empowered the government to oversee voting
____ Strategy of non-violence advocated by Thoreau and Gandhi
____ President who sent troops into Little Rock to enforce the Court’s decision
____ Radical civil rights leader who became a convert to the Nation of Islam and was later killed
____ U.S. President who desegregated the military
____ Event in 1964 where thousands of students went to the South to help register blacks to vote
____ First African American student to enroll in the University of Mississippi
____ Site where blacks were attacked as they marched from to Montgomery to urge passage of voting rights laws
____ Landmark case that ended segregation of public schools
____ Civil rights attorney who represented Linda Brown in Brown v. Board of Education
____ Law that established the U.S. Civil Rights commission
____ U.S. Chief Justice who presided over the Supreme Court during the Brown case
____ City where the governor, Orval Faubus, tried to prevent the integration of the public school system
____ Grassroots movement of young black students that was organized to bring all classes together in the struggle for equality
____ Phrase used by Stokely Charmichael that meant blacks should use their collective economic and political power to achieve
equality
____ African American woman who refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger
____ Economic strategy used by the NAACP following the arrest of Rosa Parks
____ Organization made up of largely African ministers who advocated nonviolent resistance to fight injustice
____ Young, militant civil rights group
____ Co-founder of the SCLC along with MLK, Jr.
____ Banned the poll tax
____ Federal committee that determined that racial discrimination was the most significant cause of social unrest and violence
____ Group headed by Elijah Muhammad and prescribed strict rules of behavior and separation among races
____ One of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in history; signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson
____ Groups of people civil rights activists rode buses into the south to make sure the federal government was enforcing the law
____ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
____ Leader who was instrumental in integrating the University of Mississippi and was later murdered
____ Important document written by MLK, Jr. outlining why the civil rights movement was so important
____ Civil rights workers who were killed in Mississippi in the summer of 1964
____ Enormous rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial where Martin Luther King made his famous “I Have a Dream” speech
____ Organization designed to investigate charges of job discrimination against blacks.
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De jure segregation
De facto segregation
CORE
Civil disobedience
Truman
Brown v. Board of Education
NAACP
Thurgood Marshall
Earl Warren
Little Rock, AR
Elizabeth Eckford
Eisenhower
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Rosa Parks
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King, Jr.
MIA
SCLC
Ralph Abernathy
Sit-in
SNCC
Freedom Ride
James Meredith
Medgar Evers
Letter From a Birmingham Jail
“Bull” Connor
March on Washington
Civil Rights Act of 1964
EEOC
Freedom Summer
Schwerner, Chaney, Goodman
Selma
Voting Rights Act of 1965
24th Amendment
Kerner Commission
Malcolm X
Nation of Islam
Black Power
Black Panthers
James Earl Ray