13.1

Early civil rights leaders, led by members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), focused on ending _____________ in America's public schools.

• sit-ins

• segregation

The attorney for the NAACP, ____________________, led the courtroom battles.

• Malcom X

• Thurgood Marshall

On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court issued unanimous ruling on _________________, ruling that segregation in public schools was illegal.

• Civil Rights Act

• Brown v. Board of Education

The _____________ was a small group of outstanding black students selected to integrate Central High School.

• Little Rock Nine

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

______________ was a seamstress and NAACP worker arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a abus.

• Betty Friedan

• Rosa Parks

In the _____________ boycott, thousands of African Americans stopped riding the buses.

• Montgomery Bus

• March on Washington

African American leaders turned to ______________, a young Baptist minister with a reputation as a powerful speaker.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Thurgood Marshall

On February 1, 1060, students went to Woolworth and staged a ______________, a demonstration in which protesters sit down and refuse to leave.

• sit-in

• boycott

The student protesters practiced the strategy of ___________ resistance.

• nonviolent

• segregated

The leaders of the student protests formed the ________________ to train protesters and organize civil rights demonstrations.

• Little Rock Nine

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee