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1896 USSC case which established the constitionality of the "seperate but equal" principle.
Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Organization that decided which cases would challenge segregation laws at the supreme court level.
NAACP
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1954 landmark desegregation USSC case
Brown vs Board of education
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Became first African American US Supreme Court justice, argued case in Brown vs board of edu.
Thurgood Marshall
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This establishment suspended and expelled the student attempting to integrate instead of the rioters.
University of Alabama
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This document, signed by 100 southern congressmen praised the motives of those states which had declared their intention to resist forced integration.
Southern Manifesto
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Refusal of Blacks to use public transportation in an Alabama city
Montgomery bus boycott
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Protestors are not allowed to fight back, even when provoked (term)
nonviolent resistance
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Nonviolent resistance to draw attention to an unfair law with the hope of changing it.
civil disobediance
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How long did it take for the bus boycott to be successful?
400 days
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activists who would not tolerate compromise
militants
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The Edmund Pettus Bridge is located in this city, state.
Selma, AL
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Antithesis of the civil right's movement's goal of the racial integration
black seperatism
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Riots lasting six days in August, 1965 took place in this neighborhood in this city
- Watts neighborhood
- Los Angelos
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What happened did the govener of Arkansas do about the Little Rock Nine?
ordered national gaurd to surround the school to prevent integration
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Where was the famous lunch counter sit-in?
Greensboro, NC
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Where were the freedom riders beaten? arrested?
montgomery; jackson
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what year did the freedom rides occur?
1961
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What year did the March on Washington occur?
1963
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What year was the Civil Rights Act passed in?
1964
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What year was freedom summer? What was it?
1964; activists worked on voter registration in deep south
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When was "bloody sunday" selma?
August 1965
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Who did MLK write his letter to the Birmingham Jail to?
white clergymen
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