U7L1Notes3Vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Thurgood Marshall | The lawyer that fought for and won Plessy v. Ferguson case who later became the first African American Supreme Court Justice |
Little Rock Nine | An event in which a group of students tried to enroll at Little Rock Central High School and federal troops had to restore order |
John F. Kennedy | The US president that sent officials to force the governor of Mississippi to let James Meredith enroll at the University of Mississippi |
George Wallace | The Alabama governor that tried to prevent two students from attending the University of Alabama |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | A minister in Montgomery who became an important leader in the civil rights movement during the bus boycott |
Malcom X | A civil rights leader that supported the concept of self-defense against violence instead of civil disobedience |
Stokely Carmichael | Leader of the Black Power Movement |
Elvis Presley | The best known artist from the rock-and-roll era of the 1950's |
Beatles | A well known vocal group from Britain during the 1960's |
Betty Friedan | The woman who wrote The Feminine Mystique |
Gloria Steinam | The woman who started the Ms. Magazine and the National women's Political Caucus |
Cesar Chavez | Led the Mexican-American labor movement and organized the National Farm Workers Association which led to strikes and boycotts |
Rosa Parks | A woman who challenged the de jure segregation by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus and was arrested. Her actions led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. |
Hippies | People who were part of the counterculture |
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