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Groups
Resistance
Leaders
Cases
100
What group would test segregated seating on segregated bus routes?
What is Freedom Riders
100
What act of resistance, led by Martin Luther King, lasted for 381 days and required African Americans to find alternative means of transportation?
What is Montgomery Bus Boycotts
100
This person got arrested with ninety other people because he lead a black bus boycott.
What is Martin Luther King Jr.
100
The court struck down a state ban on foreign language instruction in private schools in Meyer v. Nebraska. The law had prohibited all pre-eight grade foreign language instruction, but the court said such a ban violated the Fourteenth Amendment
What is the Latino Civil Rights Movement
300
This organization would burn houses and lynch families. They later began to hate the Christians and the Jews.
What is Ku Klux Klan
400
Who was rejected simply because he was black. His complaint was rejected by a district court that used a segregation admissions policy.
What is James Meredith
500
What group was organized to challenge the state's usual Democratic Party, which for decades denied blacks the opportunity to participate in the voting process? The membership remained open to all Mississippians
What is Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)