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Went to become Supreme Court justice. Was NAACP attourney
Thurgood Marshall
In the early 1950s five school segregation cases from Delaware Kansas South Carolina Virginia and Washington DC came under the title of ________________________
Brown v board of education
9 black students were called _________________.
Little Rock nine
____________ refused to give up her seat so she went to jail
Rosa parks
The ____________________ was used after Rosa got arrested
Boycott
________ brought the whites and blacks together
Mlkj
Students protested the ________ and stayed until they closed
Sit in
To continue the struggle of civil rights the students formed the ____________________
SNCC
______ won the election in 1960 and was Assassinated in 1963
JFK
Black and white bus riders traveled together to segregated bus stations in the south
Freedom rides
A massive demonstration for civil rights
March on Washington
—————- became president after Kennedy was Assassinated
Lyndon B. Johnson
————— band segregation in public places
Civil rights act
Johnson signed into law in August. This gave the federal government new powers to protect African Americans voting rights
Voting rights act
Program of domestic reforms that was called the ____________________
Great society
A movement in which called for African American independence
Black power movement
__________ was commuted to the goal of better pay
Ufw
He was a hispanic American who worked to improve conditions
Ceaser Chávez
She described the dissfaction that some women felt as a mom wife and a home maker
Betty friden
To fight for equal educational and career opportunities for women
NOW
Would outlaw all discrimination based on sex
Era
A concervetive activist
Phyllis scafly
Elected to represent a nyc district in the House of Representatives
Shirley Chisholm
Founded in 1968 to fight for native Americans rights
Aim
