Civil Rights

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These black teenagers were the first to integrate into Little Rock Central High.

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Little Rock Nine

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After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, it was no longer legal to deny someone of a job because of their race.

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deny someone of a job because of their race.

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Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation.

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Sit-In

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Which US president signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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Person who was killed on April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony outside his hotel room at Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee after trying to help black sanitation workers receive better working conditions

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Black nationalist leader who for awhile was a spokesman for the Nation of Islam; talked about black freedom “by any means necessary;” was assassinated on February 21, 1965, in NYC by Nation of Islam members

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Malcolm X

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Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?

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Rosa Parks

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A form of nonviolent protest where people stop buying a product?

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boycott

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This NAACP lawyer used the 14th Amendment to work to integrate public schools.

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Marshall