Civil Rights

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The Supreme Court ruling that allowed segregation of railroad cars if the accommodations were "separate but equal".

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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What established separate facilities for whites and blacks in the South, including waiting rooms, restrooms, schools, train cars, and many others?

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Jim Crow Laws

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The Supreme Court ruling that said segregation in public schools was unconstitutional

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Brown v. Board of Education

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A protest by African-Americans to stop the riding of buses to protest segregation.

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Headed by Martin Luther King Jr, this group played a major role in the Civil Rights Movement by encouraging protestors to use nonviolent resistance.

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

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A group that trained students to deliberately break laws they saw unjust to protest segregation.

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

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An African-American veteran of the Korean War who applied to University of Mississippi as a transfer student; originally denied admission but President John F. Kennedy later upheld the law that Brown v. Board of Education ruled; became first African-American student admitted into this university.

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James Meredith

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___-___ were protests where African-Americans would go to "white-only" places and sit there, refusing to move and causing the businesses to lose money ​

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sit-ins

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Who were the group of protestors who rode on buses from state to state to see if the bus companies were following the rules of desegregation?

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Freedom rides, freedom rides, Freedom Rides

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True or False: The March on Washington was the largest political gathering ever held in the United States where a group of 250,000 people marched in Washington D.C, protesting civil rights, employment, decent housing, and voting rights.

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True