Flashcard: Civil Rights (2024 edition) -copy

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Thurgood Marshall was famously known for...

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the NAACP's top lawyer who worked on many cases to help right civil rights laws

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College students used _____ to protest against segregation in diners and at lunch counters.

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sit-ins

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Name the civil rights leader who was a minister and believed in peaceful protest.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Who was the Arkansas governor that sent the National Guard to keep nine African Americans students out of school?

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Orval Faubus

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Which court case in 1954 ended segregation in schools, and reversed Plessy v. Ferguson?

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Brown v. Board of Education

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Rosa Parks initiated the _____________.

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Who was arrested after refusing to give up their seat on the bus?

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Rosa Parks

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Which President sent troops to protect the Little Rock 9?

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Dwight Eisenhower

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The freedom riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals.

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Which protest involved a burned bus?

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Freedom Rides