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28 Cards in this Set
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_________ is a peaceful way of protesting against policies.
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Non-violent protest
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_____ was the mentor to _____.
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Gandhi / MLK
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The group which introduced the concept of nonviolent protest was:
A. SNCC B. NAACP C. CORE D. SCLC |
D. SCLC
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_________ were civil rights workers traveling on interstate buses to protest segregation at terminals and make certain southern states were allowing passengers their civil rights.
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Freedom Riders
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The ________ was legistlation that banned discrimintaion in all public places.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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___________s were protest techniques in which African Americans occupied a segregated eating establishment and demanded service.
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Sit-ins
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Why did MLK Jr. choose Birmingham as the site for demonstrations?
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1. highly segregated area
2. Bull Connor |
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_______ stood in the school house door Alabama
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George Wallace
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George Wallace blocked the entrace of ________ and _______ at Alabama.
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Vivian Malone / James Hood
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For what real reason did Wallace stand in the school house door?
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To gain votes.
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_______- refused to give up her seat on a bus in her city.
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Rosa Parks
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Who said, "The true miracle of the Constitution was not the birth of the Constitution, but its life."
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Thurgood Marshall
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What happened on Alabama's darkest day?
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16th Street Baptist Church bombing
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_________, ________, and ______ were convicted of the 16th street bombings.
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Bobby Frank Cherry
Thomas Blanton Robert Chambliss |
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____ was the year in which MLK Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize
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1964
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What year did MLK view was the most important year of the civil rights struggle?
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1961
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To King the word "wait" almost always meant _______.
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Never
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Who wrote the phrase "wait" to MLK?
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Birmingham ministers
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The governor who ordered tropps from the Arkansas NAtional Guard to prevent African American students from entering school was
A. George Wallace B. Marion Barry C. E.D. Nixon D. Orval Faubus |
D. Orval Faubus
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________ was an African American attorney who was the NAACP's cheif counsel.
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Thurgood Marshall
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____ set out to eliminate segregation from American society and to encourage African Americans to register to vote.
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SCLC
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The first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court was ________.
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Thurgood Marshall
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______ was head of the NAACP in Mississippi who was assassinated.
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Medgar Evers
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_________ was convicted of assassinating MLK Jr.
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James Earl Ray
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The location where MLK Jr. was assassinated was ______.
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Memphis
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Segregation laws common throughout the South were nicknamed _________ laws.
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Jim Crow
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In what year was MLK Jr. assassinated?
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1968
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The federal judge in Alabama who gave the marchers a permit to walk to Montgomery was ________.
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Frank M. Johnson
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