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Civil Rights
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was Emmett Till? | -kid from Chicago and went to visit his great uncle in Money, MS -he was murdered for talking to a white lady at a store -evidence he was murdered but the murderers were innocent |
| Nonviolence | refusal to respond to violence with violence |
| Civil Disobedience | peacefully refusing to obey an unfair law to protest it |
| NAACP | fought against segregation in court |
| desegregation/integration | all races are the same and equal |
| Brown V. Board of Ed | -Linda Brown wanted to go to a white school because it was close to her house -she had to walk to the black school which was far from her house |
| Thurgood Marshall | civil rights lawyer / member of NAACP who won Brown V. Board of Ed |
| Earl Warren | ordered schools to integrate |
| MLK | led the Montgomery bus boycott and fought endlessly for equal rights |
| Why was Rosa Parks arrested? | for not giving up her seat to a white man |
| boycott | refuse |
| What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott? | -segregation on the buses so the blacks stopped using the buses ordered by MLK -the buses were eventually equal after the boycott |