Civil Rights Movement Protests

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What is the term for an act of protesting by sitting down and refusing to leave until your demands are listened to?

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sit-in

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civil disobedience

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when a person peacefully refuses to obey certain laws that are considered unfair

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Where was the sit-in where four black college students sat down at a lunch counter and refused to leave?

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at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, NC

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What was the name of the new civil rights group that was started so students would have a say in the civil rights movement?

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SNCC - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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The goal of the Freedom Riders was to see if the Supreme Court ruling (segregated buses and bus stations were illegal) was being followed. True or False?

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True

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Who did the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) attack in Alabama on May 15, 1961?

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Freedom Riders

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Who was the first African American student to register at the University of Mississippi, having federal troops protecting him until he graduated in 1963?

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James Meredith

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Where did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., lead protest marches to end segregation in April 1963?

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Birmingham, Alabama

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Why was the March on Washington organized for August 1963?

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to win support of the civil rights bill

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Protesters marched a 54-mile route from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to protest the right to vote. True or False?

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True