Civil Rights Leaders
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lancemosier on May 13, 2009
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Major people that students need to be aware of their impact in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Thurgood Marshall | Layer for the NAACP that helped win the Brown v. Board of Education case. Will be appointed as the first African American to serve on the US Supreme Court in 1967. |
| Rosa Parks | African American women who refuses to give her seat on a bus, causing her arrest. Her arrest will begin the Civil Rights Movement in America. |
| Martin Luther King | Leader of the Civil Rights Movement who called for "non-violent" or Civil Disobedience to end segregation and racism in America. |
| Little Rock Nine | Nine African American students that try to enter an all-white High School in Little Rock Arkansas. |
| Malcolm X | Civil Rights leader that urged blacks to be proud of their race and African roots. In his early career he called for a separate black nation. |
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