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Click Once to BeginJEOPARDY!The Civil Rights Movement
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Before entering the national scene this person was elected governor of
California with support of both Democrats and Republicans.
Although later criticized by numerous conservatives, this person is
considered to be one of the greatest chief justices in U.S. history.
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He was a founder of C.O.R.E. and a sponsor of
the Freedom Rides. He also was on the championship debate team portrayed in
the movie, “The Great Debaters.”
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He was a veteran of WWI and educated at Harvard. He taught law at Howard University and trained Thurgood Marshall. He
created the strategy for the NAACP that eventually led to the
desegregation of school.
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He was the minister of the Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, who requested that
Martin Luther King and the SCLC come there to protest segregation there in 1963.
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He was the field secretary for the NAACP and one of the
first martyrs of the civil rights movement. His death
prompted President John Kennedy to ask Congress for a comprehensive civil-rights
bill.
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Four college students in Greensboro, North Carolina, began this still of protest at a Woolworth’ lunch
counter.
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President Eisenhower sent nearly 1,000 paratroopers to assure that the rights of
nine African-American students to attend a public
school were respected.
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These interstate bus trips resulted in
violence and federal actions in defense of
civil rights.
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Hundreds of activists and thousands of mostly white
college students from around the country went primarily to
Mississippi in 1964 to help black citizens to register to vote and to
aid in solving other social problems that hampered black
advancement.
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This was the first movement in the modern civil rights era to
have as its goal the desegregation of an entire community, and it resulted in the jailing of more than 1,000
African Americans.
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This organization stands for the strategy of nonviolent
mass action, the affiliation of local community organizations
across the South, and a determination to make the
movement open to all, regardless of race, religion, or
background.
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A group of interracial students in Chicago in 1942
founded this organization which became an essential
part of the Civil Rights Movement sponsoring sit-
ins and many other protests.
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This group brought together college students who at first
were pledged to non-violence but in 1966 turned to “black
power.”
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This organization was formed in the days following the December 1955 arrest of
Rosa Parks, to oversee the bus boycott. E.D. Nixon and
Jo Ann Robinson were important leaders.
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Mississippi blacks, barred from participating in the state’s Democratic Party, decided to form their own party in 1964. They held parallel precinct
and district caucuses open to all races.
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This lawyer for the NAACP won 29 of 32 cases that he
argued in front of the Supreme Court including
perhaps the most famous of all the court decisions on
civil rights.
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He was a Freedom Rider, was arrested 24 times for
protesting for Civil Rights, and an influential SNCC leader. Today he is a member of the House of Representatives.
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His repeated calls for a march on Washington, D.C., resulted in a giant nonviolent gathering in
1963 where Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his famous “I
Have A Dream” speech.
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He was a brilliant student at Harvard and then teaching
mathematics at the Horace Mann School in New York (1958-1961), who left teaching to be Freedom Rider. He was the field secretary
for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
and was director of SNCC's Mississippi Project.
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He was the head of the Montgomery branch of the Pullman Porters union and
president of the local NAACP long before the famous bus
boycott. He had been campaigning for civil rights,
particularly voting rights, since the 1940s.
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.This unsung hero of the Civil Rights Movement
inspired and guided emerging leaders and was instrumental in the creation
of SNCC
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She and three others mimeographed and
delivered 52,500 leaflets in one night
announcing a boycott.
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As the Civil Rights Movement waned and split after 1966, this
movement marked a turning point in how blacks saw themselves
and interracial relations.
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This group of women laid the foundation on the early 1950s
for the Montgomery Bus Boycott that made Rosa Parks
and Martin Luther King, Jr., famous.
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This important case lead up to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v.
Board of Education, by striking down the a statute that
mandated segregation in graduate education.
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As governor of a southern state, he sent his National
Guard to block the enrollment of black students at the high
school in the state capitol and caused a national crisis.
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His heavy-handed defense of segregation in 1963
Birmingham, Alabama—using police dogs and high pressure water hoses against the non-violent tactics of Martin Luther King, Jr.—actually hastened the passage of a Civil Rights
Act.
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He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 for his work
as a diplomat for the United Nations. In 1965 he
marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., to Montgomery,
Alabama.
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He is often seen as the standard bearer of white
opposition to integration in the 1960s and in 1963 stood in
the doorway of the University of Alabama to prevent a black
student from registering.
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This southern governor was catapulted into the national
spotlight in 1962 when he sought to bar a black man from entering the University of Mississippi in
defiance of a Federal court order. The resulting confrontation led to
riots at “Ole Miss” that left two dead.
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