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Civil Rights Movements

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Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States
African American who was one of the most eminent human rights leaders of the 19th century.Hint: he was taught how to read.
the ideology that humans may be divided into separate and exclusive biological entities
The party’s original purpose was to patrol African American neighbourhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality
worked out between the North and the South and passed by the U.S. Congress that allowed for admission of ______ as the 24th
Any law in US history that enforced racial segregation in the South
a series of political protests against segregation by blacks and whites who rode buses together through the American South
Black American slave who led the only effective, sustained slave rebellion (August 1831) in U.S. history
American journalistic crusader who published a newspaper, The Liberator (1831–65), and help lead the successful abolitionist
the redressing of the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy
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African American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, spoke concepts of race pride and black nationalism
political demonstration held in Washington, D.C., in 1963 by civil rights leaders to protest racial discrimination
the practice of restricting people to certain circumscribed areas of residence or to separate institutions
U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously (9–0) that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment
final court of appeal and final expositor of the Constitution of the United States.