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Module 15 - Civil Rights

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Just weeks after the March on Washington in September of 1963, four little girls were killed by a _______at the 16th Street Baptist Church.
The last name of the of a 14 year old African American boy who had allegedly flirted with a white woman in Mississippi in 1955. He was found dead and mutilated.
African American protesters sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until they were served.
Martin Luther King called his nonviolent resistance to injustice this.
First black students to enter the all white Central High School in 1957.
In 1946 violence between police and black citizens in Tennessee over an African American veteran fighting with a white store clerk that treated his mother badly.
The last name of the woman who shocked the world at the 1964 Democratic National Convention when she looked into the camera and talk directly about the abuses civil right activists were enduring, including her.
Student ________ Coordinating Committee was set to help protest the horrible treatment of African Americans in this country. They were at Selma.
The Supreme Court case of a little black girl that wanted to go to the school closest to her house in 1954, but it was an all white school. Her last name.
James _______ an Air Force Vet won a federal court case that allowed him to enroll at the all-white University of Mississippi in 1962. The Governor refused to let him register as a student.
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The 1964 Civil Rights Act allowed all citizens the right to enter a public _____________. No separation.
Southern politicians who opposed desegregation.
A town in Alabama were the SCLC in 1965 were trying to register African American voters. Jimmy Jackson was killed and Martin Luther King encourage many to walk in a 50 mile protest walk.
Supreme Court ruled in 1896 that races should be separated but with treated equally. What is the Court Case?
______Tax was one way to keep poor African American voters at home because they could not pay the tax.
____________ speech was done August 28, 1963 in Washington D.C. in front of 250,000 people. This was to help pass the new Civil Rights Act.
Police ________ were used on black protesters in Birmingham, Alabama. It looked really bad on tv.
The City in Alabama where 959 children protesting the lack of civil rights and horrible treatment were arrested.
________ riders were black and white young people riding in buses across the South proclaiming civil rights.
After Brown vs. Board of Education came out what state made this comment: "We are going to do whatever is necessary to keep white children in white schools and colored children in colored schools."