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1
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Place where university of Mississippi is located

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Oxford

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City where civil rights movement had problems with Laurie Pritchett

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Albany, Georgia

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Police chief in Birmingham

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Bull Conner

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Governor of Arkansas who liked segregated schools

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Orval E. Phobus

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Head of NAACP (he was shot in the back)

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Medger Evers

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Teen who was killed for saying something “fresh” to a white woman

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Emmet Till

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Man who killed Martin Luther King Jr.

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James Earl Ray

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Man who killed Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner

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Edgar Ray Killing

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Reused to give up her seat on the bus

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Rosa Parks

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Talked with the mayor of Tennessee and asked to end segregated lunch counters

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Dianne Nash

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11
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Raised their fists for black power at the olympics

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Tommy Smith and John Carlos

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12
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White freedom rider who was beaten up

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Jim Swerg

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13
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Students civil rights organization

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SNICK

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Pastors civil rights organization

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SCLC

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15
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Attorneys civil rights organization

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NAACP

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16
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What is core

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Congress of racial equality (James Farmer was a part of it)

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Date I have a dream was given

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August 1963

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18
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Girl who didn’t show up the first day of school at Central High

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Elizabeth Elford

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19
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Trained civil rights workers to be peaceful before they sat at lunch counters

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Jim Lawson

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20
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Group that came up with the song “Sweet Home Alabama”

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Lynrd Skynrd

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21
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President who sent the army to help Meridith enroll

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Kennedy

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Attorney general for Kennedy

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Bobby Kennedy

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Bobby Kennedy put pressure on what group to get rid of segregated busses

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ICC

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Law passed that ended segregation

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Civil rights act of 1964

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Document King wrote in confinement

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Letter from a Birmingham jail

26
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Pastor in SCLC who was whacked in the head

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CT Vivian

27
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Head of FBI who didn’t like the black panthers

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Hoover

28
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Who inspired Martin Luther King Jr.

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Gandhi

29
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Person who wrote southern man

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Neil young

30
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Anthem for civil rights movement

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We shall overcome

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Organization that wasn’t legally chosen for the democratic delegates

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MFDP

32
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Police chef who wouldn’t fill up the jails

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Laurie Pritchett

33
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Dude shot trying to protect his mom

A

Jimmy Lee Jackson

34
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Segregationist governor of Mississippi

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Ross Barn

35
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City where bus boycott took place

A

Birmingham

36
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First black to attend the university of Alabama

A

Autherine Lucy

37
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Who lead the Black Panther Party?

A

Hewie Lewton and Bobby Seal

38
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How many times did Kwane Ture go to jail?

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27

39
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What year was Malcolm X shot?

A

1965

40
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Which president sent the army to protect the march from Selmont to Montgomery (54 miles)

A

Johnson

41
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Who’s house and church were bombed

A

Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth

42
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Who was a member of the KKK and found guilty?

A

Robert Chambliss

43
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Who was convicted for killing the four kids in the church bombing?

A

Thomas Blanton and Bobby Cherry

44
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Who thought the freedom riders were “troublemakers”

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Gov. John Patterson

45
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Where were the freedom riders mobbed?

A

Montgomery

46
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Who refused to pay a fine for sitting at a lunch counter?

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John Lewis and he sat in jail for 33 days

47
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Who dumped chili on a kids head?

A

Minnie

48
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Who is sent to help the kids at central high all year?

A

101 Airborne Division

49
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Where is central high school?

A

Little rock Arkansas

50
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How long was the bus abolition?

A

11 months

51
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Who found Emmet Till

A

Mose Wright

52
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Who killed Emmet Till?

A

Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam

53
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What year did Truman desegregate the military?

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1948

54
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What year did segregation in schools end?

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1954

55
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Who wanted to go to the University of Mississippi?

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James Meredith (Kennedy sent 400-500 troops to help him)

56
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How many troops were sent to help the freedom riders?

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600

57
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What were the freedom riders arrested for?

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Trespassing and over 300 got 60 days

58
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Who was determined the March from Selmont to Montgomery wouldn’t happen?

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Gov. Wallace

59
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Who whacked CT Vivian upside the head?

A

Jim Clark

60
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Who was lost and got hit in the head with a club and killed?

A

James Reeb

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