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People

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The Law

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Presidents Organizations Events

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Former field secretary for the NAACP in

Mississippi who was assassinated outside of

his home in 1963

One of the three civil rights workers during freedom summer who was killed by the KKK after investigating a church bombing in

Mississippi

White supremacist who was convicted in 1994 of murdering a civil

rights activists

Organized SNCC to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights

movement

Governor of Alabama who resisted Martin

Luther King’s request to get rid of restrictions

that denied blacks the right to vote

Signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 that

outlawed segregation in public places

Sent troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to escort

9 black students into Central High School

After witnessing the horrifying pictures of young blacks being

beaten by police dogs and fire hoses, he

announced that he was sending congress civil

rights legislation in 1963

He desegregated the armed forces in 1948

Signed an executive order that forbade

discrimination in any workplace that received

federal funds and created the FEPC

Supreme court case that said the “separate but equal” clause has no

place in public education

Banned segregation in public places based on race, color and religion

Outlawed discrimination in housing

Recommended the federal government

establish programs to reduce poverty and

discrimination in urban ghettos in order to reduce crime and

violence

Banned the poll tax

Organized armed patrols of urban

neighborhoods to protect people against

police abuse

Utilized the court system to overturn what they saw as unfair laws, despite the fact that is was a long and often painstaking process

Younger blacks formed this group because they believed Martin Luther

King, Jr. was out of touch with their beliefs.

They also wanted change at a faster pace and on a broader sense.

Dr. King and Ralph Abernathy formed this organization following the success they saw

take place with the bus boycott. It was made up of southern ministers.

They tested the effectiveness of

“Boynton v. Virginia” by organizing the Freedom

Rides

Her arrest led to the Montgomery Bus

Boycott

Young, unarmed protestors were

attacked by police dogs and fire hoses at the command of “Bull” Connor in this city

4 college students participated in this act

of non-violent civil disobedience at

Woolworth’s

During this event students volunteered to test the effectiveness of a supreme court case

that desegregated interstate travel

Finally, on the 3rd attempt protestors were

successful in crossing the Edmund Pettis

Bridge on route to the state capitol from this

city

Medgar Evers

Schwerner, Chaney or Goodman

Byron De le Beckwith

Ella Baker

George Wallace

Lyndon B. Johnson

Dwight D. Eisenhower

John F. Kennedy

Harry S Truman

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Brown v. Board of Education

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Civil Rights Act of 1968or

Fair Housing Act

Kerner Commission

24th Amendment

Black Panthers

NAACP(National Association for

the Advancement of Colored People)

SNCC(Student Non-violent

Coordinating Committee)

SCLC(Southern Christian Leadership Council)

CORE(Congress on Racial

Equality)

Rosa Parks

Birmingham

Sit-Ins

Freedom Rides

Selma

Unsung Heroes of the Civil

Rights Movement

She was the only white female killed during the Civil Rights Movement

Viola Liuzzo