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SCLC leader and planner of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Explore key figures like MLK Jr., Malcolm X, and the Little Rock Nine, pivotal events such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Voting Rights Act, and influential organizations like the SCLC and SNCC during the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.

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SCLC leader and planner of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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  1. SCLC leader and planner of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

  2. Former SNCC member that helped start the Black Power Movement

  3. Malcolm X • Little • Teacher • Nation of Islam • Violence • Mecca • Death

  4. He shot MLK

  5. Person who refused to give her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white man.

  6. 1st black man allowed into the University of Mississippi.

  7. Lawyer in Brown v Board of Education and 1st black Supreme Court justice.

  8. He signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

  9. This person married Martin Luther King Jr.

  10. He called in the Army to admit the Little Rock 9

  11. Influential preacher from the Nation of Islam. His teachings helped convert Malcolm X

  12. There were no riots in Indianapolis on the night MLK was shot because of his speech.

  13. This says that everyone born in the U.S. is a citizen.

  14. This outlawed all forms of slavery

  15. This guaranteed all males of legal age the right to vote regardless of race.

  16. This ruling stated that segregation was legal as long as the facilities were equal.

  17. This outlawed segregation in public schools.

  18. How did the Little Rock Nine prove to Americans that the government would enforce desegregation laws?

  19. Nonviolent protest group made up of college students

  20. Protest group made up of southern Christian African Americans

  21. Northern based protest group made up of both blacks and whites

  22. African Americans refused to give up their seats at segregated lunch counters. These were known as _________ _________

  23. What were Freedom Riders protesting?

  24. What does NAACP stand for?

  25. This outlawed all forms of discrimination in public places.

  26. Why were the protests in Birmingham Alabama successful while the ones in Albany Georgia were not?

  27. Who was used for the protests in Birmingham? Why would you use these people?

  28. Name 3 ways to prevent African Americans from voting:

  29. What did the 24th Amendment do?

  30. Define Freedom Summer

  31. During Freedom Summer, Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner were murdered. Why did these murders get so much attention?

  32. Which state was the worst when it came to voting rights.

  33. Why was voting so important to African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement?

  34. Protesters were beaten in this Alabama city after they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge on a march to Montgomery.

  35. How did the event in the previous question influence Lyndon Johnson?

  36. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 put ___________ under federal control

  37. How were the Black Panther Party and SCLC different?

  38. President Johnson appointed the ______ _______ to investigate race riots in the north. They said that white racism was to blame for the riots.

  39. Why did MLK oppose the Vietnam War?

  40. How did many white Americans react to the Black Power movement? Why?

  41. Many of the “violent” protest groups advocated black separatism. What does that mean?

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