Civil Rights Movement 1945-62
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 14th Amendment | Which Amendment made black people full US citizens? |
| North | Which part of the USA was facing segregation? |
| NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People) and CORE (Congress of Racial Equality). | Name the two main Organisations involved in Civil Rights before the Second World War. |
| 1 Million | Roughly how many black people fought in the US Army during the Second World War? |
| The Supreme Court | How can laws be overturned? |
| Picketing Boycotts Sit-ins Freedom Rides | Name four types of peaceful protest. |
| Rosa Parks | Who was involved in the Montgomery Bus Boycott? |
| She didn't want to move for a white person on a bus for a white person so the bus driver phoned the police and they arrested her. | Why was she arrested? |
| Little Rock | What school was the main headline for intergration? |
| Elizabeth Eckford | Who was the famous woman walking through to Central High School on her first day? |
| Anniston | Where was the bus firebombed on 14th May 1961? |
| Federal Laws | Opposition to intergration led many Southern Satesstates to defy... |
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