UShist 10.3 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Lyndon Johnson | President who signed most of the important civil rights legislation into law. |
Malcolm X | assassinated in 1965 when members of the Nation of Islam turned against him |
Jack Ruby | Dallas strip-club owner who shot Lee Harvey Oswald |
James Earl Ray | convicted of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
George Wallace | Governor of Alabama had the slogan...Segregation forever! |
Robert F. Kennedy | Former attorney general, was assassinated while seeking the Democratic nomination for president in 1968. |
Birmingham | In 1963, peaceful demonstrations here were met with fire hoses and attack dogs. |
Washington D.C. | Where King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963. |
Dallas, TX | JFK was assassinated in this city on November 22, 1963. |
Mississippi | A voter registration drive in 1964 in this state was known as "Freedom Summer." |
Selma, AL | In 1965, marchers were beaten after they crossed a bridge in this city on their way to the state capital. |
Memphis, TN | place where MLK, Jr. was assassinated in 1968. |
Watts | A district of Los Angeles where a six-day riot in 1965 left 36 dead and 4000 arrested. |
Voting Rights Act of 1965 | banned literacy tests and other laws that kept blacks from voting, and also provided for federal officials to register voters. |
Civil Rights Act of 1964 | banned segregation in public places. |
Great Society | LBJ's program to end poverty and racial injustice |
JFK | LBJ called for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a way to honor the memory of: |
Freedom Riders | One accomplishment of this group was bringing about a federal ban on segregation in all interstate travel facilities. |
SNCC | organized "Freedom Summer" to increase voter registration for Southern blacks. |
Nation of Islam | urged blacks to separate from whites. |
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