The Birmingham Campaign | Ruby Bridges | MLK Assassination | Rosa Parks | Miscellaneous Civil Rights |
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Marches
The Birmingham Campaign mostly consisted of this type of protest.
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Desegregating public school.
It's what Ruby is famous for.
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39
Age of MLK at the time of his assassination (within two years).
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Montgomery Bus Boycotts
Rosa Parks inspired this Civil Rights protest.
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University of Mississippi
James Meredith was the first black student to attend this university in this historically raciSSt southern state.
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1963.
The year the Campaign began.
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Louisiana
Ruby went to school in this segregated Southern state.
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James Earl Ray
The man convicted of killing MLK.
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False. It lasted 381 days.
True or False: The boycott lasted nearly 10 months.
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Black Power
A civil rights leader named Stokely Carmichael first coined the famous phrase about this kind of power.
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Martin Luther King and Southern Christian Leadership Conference
MLK led the SCLC organized the Campaign. The acronyms stand for these two things.
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They removed their children from the school.
White parents protested Bridges inclusion this way.
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The Lorraine
The name of the hotel in Memphis, Tennessee where MLK was assassinated.
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Supreme Court
This government body ruled the segregation of buses unconstitutional.
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Dr. Martin Luther King
This civil rights leader believed that citizens have a moral duty to disobey unfair laws.
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What is
MLK wrote his famous letter from this place in Birmingham. It was addressed to the city's religious leaders who had sided with the establishment.
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Screams and Taunts
Angry segregationists Ruby voiced their displeasure this way as she walked to school.
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A museum
What is the Lorraine Motel called now.
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Rosa Parks was a member of the NAACP, an acronym for this.
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Ghandi
Martin Luther King famously borrowed his non-violence tactics from this civil rights warrior.
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Sit-ins.
These forms of protest were also used in Birmingham's libraries, lunch counters and white churches.
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Passed an exam.
Ruby was chosen in part, because she was one of five students who did this.
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London
Ray, the assassin was arrested in this European city two months after King was killed.
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$14
The amount Parks was fined for not giving up her seat.
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Whistling at a white woman in a convenience store.
Emmett Till was killed by white men for allegedly doing this.
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