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Civil Rights Movement

Name_____________________________________
Horizontales
In the spring of 1963, MLK and the SCLC staged a televised, nonviolent protest in ________, Alabama. S2
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned ________ in all public places in the U.S. S2
First African American to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962. S2
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister who organized a _____ of the buses in Montgomery, AL. S1
Militant group of young African Americans who organized armed patrols in urban neighborhoods in order to protect people from police abuse. S3
The freedom riders were bombed and beaten in Alabama, and were arrested and put in jail in _________. S2
MLK and other civil rights leaders insisted that all of their public protests be ________. S1 S2
Challenged segregation laws in Montgomery, Alabama by refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to white passengers. S1
President that signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. S2
Group created by MLK and Ralph Abernathy to advocate nonviolent resistance to segregation laws in the South. S1
Ordered the desegregation of the U.S. Military in 1948. S1
A tactic used by congressmen and senators where they give long speeches in order to delay the passing of certain laws. S2
On June 11, 1963, ________ gave a televised address promoting the civil rights movement and asking for Congress to pass laws protecting the rights of African Americans. S2
Verticales
Freedom Riders were attempting to take public buses from Washington DC to ____ _______. S2
In 1965, MLK and the SCLC organized a march to ______, AL to pressure the federal government to enact new voting laws. S3
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment banned the ____ ____ that was required to vote in the South. S3
On August 28, 1963, the NAACP, SCLC, and SNCC organized a march to Washington DC, where MLK delivered his famous " ____ ___ _ ______" speech. S2
In the 1950s the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation in schools violated the U.S. _______. S1
MLk was assassinated outside of his motel room in _______, TN. S3
In 1957, nine African American students enrolled at Central High School in _____ _____, Arkansas. S1
First African American to play in Major League Baseball. S1
In the 1960s the most violent riots occurred in norther cities such as Newark, NJ and _______, MI. S3
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned _______ test that were required for voter registration in the South. S3
Radical African American leader who was killed in February of 1965 by members of the Nation of Islam. S3
Laws that enforced legal segregation in the South. S1
Movement started in Greensboro, North Carolina to protest the segregation laws at restaurants and lunch counters. S2