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Former field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi who was assassinated outside of his home in 1963
One of the three civil rights workers during freedom summer who was killed by the KKK after investigating a church bombing in Mississippi
White supremacist who was convicted in 1994 of murdering a civil rights activists
Organized SNCC to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement
Governor of Alabama who resisted Martin Luther King’s request to get rid of restrictions that denied blacks the right to vote
Signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 that outlawed segregation in public places
Sent troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to escort 9 black students into Central High School
After witnessing the horrifying pictures of young blacks being beaten by police dogs and fire hoses, he announced that he was sending congress civil rights legislation in 1963
He desegregated the armed forces in 1948
Signed an executive order that forbade discrimination in any workplace that received federal funds and created the FEPC
Supreme court case that said the “separate but equal” clause has no place in public education
Banned segregation in public places based on race, color and religion
Outlawed discrimination in housing
Recommended the federal government establish programs to reduce poverty and discrimination in urban ghettos in order to reduce crime and violence
Banned the poll tax
Organized armed patrols of urban neighborhoods to protect people against police abuse
Utilized the court system to overturn what they saw as unfair laws, despite the fact that is was a long and often painstaking process
Younger blacks formed this group because they believed Martin Luther King, Jr. was out of touch with their beliefs. They also wanted change at a faster pace and on a broader sense.
Dr. King and Ralph Abernathy formed this organization following the success they saw take place with the bus boycott. It was made up of southern ministers.
They tested the effectiveness of “Boynton v. Virginia” by organizing the Freedom Rides
Her arrest led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Young, unarmed protestors were attacked by police dogs and fire hoses at the command of “Bull” Connor in this city
4 college students participated in this act of non- violent civil disobedience at Woolworth’s
During this event students volunteered to test the effectiveness of a supreme court case that desegregated interstate travel
Finally, on the 3 rd attempt protestors were successful in crossing the Edmund Pettis Bridge on route to the state capitol from this city
Medgar Evers
Schwerner, Chaney or Goodman
Byron De le Beckwith
Ella Baker
George Wallace
Lyndon B. Johnson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Harry S Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Brown v. Board of Education
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights Act of 1968 or Fair Housing Act
Kerner Commission
24 th Amendment
Black Panthers
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee)
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Council)
CORE (Congress on Racial Equality)
Rosa Parks
Birmingham
Sit-Ins
Freedom Rides
Selma
Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement
She was the only white female killed during the Civil Rights Movement
Viola Liuzzo