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1. _____ _____ decided to defend segregation, because even though Brown v. School Board applied only to schools, it threatened the whole system of segregation.
T O S R H W U E S E R T I H E N
2. The right of African Americans to _____ was protected by the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which was the first civil rights law since Southern Reconstruction in 1877.
O V E T
3. The Supreme Court ruled that _____ _____ were unconstitutional, after the NAACP & Linda Brown’s parents sued the Topeka school board in 1954.
T A E D G R O S H G C S S L E E O
4. Eisenhower ordered the _____ to occupy Central High School, after violence in Little Rock occured.
R Y A M
5. When _____ _____ was denied entry to a school in Topeka, Kansas based on her race, Thurgood Marshall began trying to end segregation in public schools.
N A W I D N L R B O
6. As Senate majority leader, _____ _____ put together a compromise that enabled the Civil Rights Act of 1957 to pass, despite the resistance of Southern senators.
N N Y O H L D N N O J S O
7. _____ _____ was an attorney and the NAACP’s chief counsel, and he was known to challenge segregation after World War 2.
M O G H L R D S R O L A A H U T
8. Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine students from entering _____ _____ , because he was a defender of white supremacy.
H R L H C E A T G I N
9. The Congress of _____ _____ used sit-ins to desegregate restaurants in Chicago that refused to serve African Americans, founded by Farmer & Houser.
L Q Y T U I C R A E A A L I
10. Supreme Court established _____ _____ _____ in the Plessy v. Ferguson case, which meant that segregation was legal as long as equal facilities were provided.
B L E T U E S U R A P A A Q T E
11. The _____ _____ Leadership Conference was formed by Rev, King and Rev Shuttlesworth, because African American churches served as forums for planning meetings.
A T I O N S H T E S N H R I C U R
12. African American leaders ended discrimination in wartime factories & increased opportunities in the military, all due to the second _____ _____ that took place in the 1940s.
R D L W R A O W
13. Martin Luther King believed African Americans could end segregation through _____ _____ resistance, probably learned while earning his Ph.D. in theology.
S N L I O E V T I A V N P N S E O
14. During the Great Depression, African Americans benefited from _____ _____ programs of the 1930s, which created political power for Northern democrats.
D N E A W L E
15. _____ _____ _____ was a young pastor who was hired to run the Montgomery Improvement Association, which was boycotting busses.
N G T R M A R E I L H K U N I T
16. In Norris v. Alabama, the Supreme Court ruled that keeping African Americans out of _____ was a violation of equal protection, which was the kind of court case the NAACP supported.
E I J R S U
17. Jo Ann Robinson asked African Americans to _____ _____ when Rosa Parks appeared in court, starting a new era of the civil rights movement.
U T S S E C B Y T O B O
18. A new era in the civil rights movement was sparked after Rosa Parks allowed the NAACP to use her case to _____ _____ .
E R N G E T L E L N I H G G E C A A S O
19. Several Southern Congress members pledged to reverse the Brown v. the School Board decision and signed the _____ _____ as evidence of their discontent.
T S H A U O E M S O I N T F N R E
20. _____ _____ did not move when a Montgomery bus driver told her to get up so a white man could sit down.
S R P O K R A S A