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This President signed the Civil Rights Act.
Who is President Johnson
Four men launched a peaceful protest at a lunch counter in North Carolina.
The refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest
What is Civil Disobedience
Emmett Till was from this city.
Where is Chicago
Founder of the SCLC, he preached the importance of nonviolence.
Who is Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
13 Black and White Women launched a peaceful protest to travel from the northern states through southern states riding public transportation.
What are the Freedom Riders
Signed in 1964, this act prohibited discrimination in voting, public accomodations, and federally assisted programs
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
The NAACP stands for this.
What is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The type of bus that was bombed by white attackers seeking to stop a peaceful protest by white and black protesters.
What is a Greyhound bus
He was a nationalist and advocated for African Americans to separate themselves from society.
Who is Malcom X
This event, arguably, sparks the Civil Rights Movement
What is the murder of Emmett Till
This court case of 1896 established the "separate but equal" clause.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
An education center for activism in workers' rights and racial equality
What is the Highlander School
What is the F.W. Woolworth Company
He was a Baptist deacon and his death sparked the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965
Who is Jimmie Lee Jackson
The first day of this protest, known as Bloody Sunday, resulted in the brutal attack of protesters trying to walk 54 miles to protest discrimination against African American voters.
What are the Selma to Montgomery marches
This court case of 1954 declares the "separate but equal" clause is unconstitutional. Schools will then desegregate.
Local laws that enforced racial segregation
What are the Jim Crow Laws
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the signing of what document?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
She attended a school to train activists and was a secretary for the NAACP.
Who is Rosa Parks
This event brought awareness to discrimination on public transportation
This court case of 1956 forces buses to integrate.
What is Browder v. Gayle
These were used as a discriminatory practice to keep African Americans from exercising their right to vote
What are Voting Literacy Tests
He was a white Unitarian Universalist minister from Boston, who had come to Selma to march and was killed by a mob of angry white people.
Who is James Reeb