Unit 7 REVIEW: MS & The Civil Rights Movement

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Term that best describes personal liberties protected by the U.S. Constitution that ensure equal participation in society

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Civil Rights

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Main outcome of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954?

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Segregated schools ruled unconstitutional

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Organization that worked to advance equality through legal action and advocacy and was a leading civil rights group in Mississippi

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NAACP

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State-funded agency that actively worked to resist desegregation and the civil rights movement from 1956 to 1973

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State Sovereignty Commission

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Purpose of Freedom Summer of 1964

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Volunteers trained voters in nonviolence

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Which federal law prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin?

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Amount of time it took for desegregation to take place in MS schools

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Nearly twenty years overall

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African American teen from Chicago that was murdered in 1955, launching the Civil Rights Movement

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Emmett Till

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Elected as governor in 1959 on the promise to keep Mississippi segregated

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Ross Barnett

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Legal principle that prevented the rearrest of Bryant and Milam after they admitted to killing Emmett Till

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Double-jeopardy clause