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| 1. | In 1963 hundreds of ____ children marched along with King and others down the streets of downtown Birmingham. They were violently stopped by attack dogs, police officers, and firefighters. |
| 2. | In 1965 King won the ____ peace price. |
| 4. | She refused to give up her bus seat to a white person. As a result, she was arrested and jailed. (2 words) |
| 6. | In 1956 the United States ____ ____ ruled that segregation on public buses was not legal. (2 words) |
| 7. | King's life came to an end when he was ____ in 1968. |
| 8. | King led many of these, such as the one he led at an Atlanta department store lunch counter. |
| 9. | King spoke out against the war with this country that the United States was involved in. King believed it would not be right to protest against racial violence without also speaking against the violence of war. |
| 13. | King's memoir Stride Toward Freedom (1958) focused on the ____ boycott. |
| 15. | When King was only 6 he had an experience with this. The parents of two of his white friends said that King could not play with them because of his skin color. |
| 16. | In 1959 King went to this country to study Gandhi's ideas. |
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| 3. | Mahatma _____ was someone who practiced nonviolent resistance in India to bring about change. King studied this man's life and his accomplishments. |
| 5. | The Civil Rights Act of 1964 authorized the United States government to enforce ____ of public accommodations. |
| 10. | The ____ focused much attention on the nonviolent methods of protest and some of the violent responses. As a result of the ____, people around the world learned of the injustice that was taking place. |
| 11. | King believed that individuals had the moral right and responsibility to disobey ____ laws. |
| 12. | Despite having his house bombed, King believed and persuaded others to remain _____. |
| 14. | Henry David ____ was a man who lived from 1817-1862 and believed strongly in not supporting a government that permitted slavery. Martin Luther King Jr. paid special attention to the writings of this man. |
| 17. | The ____ Rights Act was passed in 1965. This law made it illegal to require people to know how to read before they could register to vote. |
| 18. | King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963. His speech and the 200,000 people who came to protest helped pressure Washington to pass the ____ Rights Act in 1964. |
| 19. | The ____ laws in many southern cities required black bus riders to sit in the back of the bus and give up their seats to white riders. |
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