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Civil Rights Movemen
Freedom Fighters
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Congress of Racial Equality; founded o achieve civil rights using nonviolence. | CORE |
| First African American to play in Major League Baseball. | Jackie Robinson |
| Leading attorney for NAACP in 1940s and 1950s, who headed the team in Brown vs. Board of Education case; later, Lyndon Johnson appointed him the first black justice on the United States Supreme Court. | Thurgood Marshall |
| Incident in which nine African-American students were prevented from attending Little Rock Central High in 1957 during the Civil Rights Movement. | Little Rock Nine |
| United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national civil rights movement. | Rosa Parks |
| Protest in 1955-1956 by African Americans against racial segregation in bus system of Montgomery, Alabama. | Montgomery Bus Boycott |
| Non-violent civil rights leader. | Martin Luther King |
| Southern Christian Leadership Conference, churches link together to inform blacks about changes in the Civil Rights Movement, led by MLK Jr., was a success. | SCLC |
| Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, college kids participate in Civil Rights, stage sit-ins. | SNCC |
| Group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest interstate bus segregation. | Freedom Riders |
| United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933). | James Meredith |
| Law that made racial discrimination against any group in hotels, motels, and restaurants illegal and forbade many forms of job discrimination. | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| Abolished the poll tax. | Twenty-forth Amendment |
| 1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi. | Freedom Summer |
| 1965: a law passed that forbids any state to deny a citizen the right to vote on the basis of race color or sex. | Voting Rights Act |
| Segregation by law. | De jure segregation |
| Segregation resulting from tradition and custom. | De facto segregation |
| Former SNCC leader, he quit and joined the Black panthers after calling for "Black Power Now!" | Stokley Carmichael |
| Movement that urged African Americans to gain control of political and economic power by force if necessary. | Black Power |
| A group formed in 1966, inspired by the idea of Black Power, that provided aid to black neighborhoods; often thought of as radical or violent. | Black Panther Party |
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