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| She is considered the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement because she refused to give up her seat on a bus. |
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| The leader of the Modern Civil Right Movement at Montgomery, Selma, and Birmingham. Preached non-violent civil disobedience |
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| Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Refusing to obey an unjust law to bring attention to it, but being willing to pay the consequences. |
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| Non-violent Civil Disobedience |
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| Refusing to buy a product or use a service to bring attention to injustice. An example is citizens refusal to ride buses in Montgomery. |
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| Separation of people according to race. |
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| The rights of citizenship guaranteed by the Constitution of the U.S. |
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| Legislation passed that outlawed segregation in public places and in the workplace. |
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| Outlawed literacy tests, poll taxes, and other barriers to voting. |
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| Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
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| Laws passed with the intention of segregating races. |
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| Leader of the Black Muslims who believed that blacks should defend themselves, and they should separate from white society. |
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| Formed the NFWA (later called the UFW) to fight for better working conditions for migrant farm workers |
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| Student organization that was started by the leaders of the lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro. |
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| SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee) |
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| Organization led by Dr. King to work for Civil Rights. They were the main group that organized the March on Washington. |
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| SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) |
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| One of the important Civil Rights organizations, they organized the Freedom Rides through the South to test desegregation laws in interstate travel. |
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| CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) |
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| Legal organization that funded and supported lawsuits that fought segregation. |
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| NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). |
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| Broke the color barrier when he played with the Brooklyn Dodgers. |
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| His violent death brought nationwide attention to the problem of racism in the South at the beginning of the modern Civil Rights movement. |
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| Location of the first integrated high school where students were escorted to class by soldiers. |
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| Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas |
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| Over 250,000 people heard Dr. King give his famous "I Have A Dream Speech" at this event. |
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| The March on Washington, D.C.(August 1963) |
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| This 1896 case stated that train cars could be segregated as long as "separate but equal" accommodations were provided. This decision was used as the basis for Jim Crow Laws in the South. |
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| Case argued by Thurgood Marshall, it was decided that the separate but equal doctrine was inherently unequal, so schools should be desegregated. |
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| Brown v. Board of Education |
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