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  • What is racism?
    Hatred or intolerance of another race
  • The ________ stood in front of the school to protect the entering students.
    Troops
  • What did Ruby say she felt privileged to be a part of?
    The civil rights struggle (or movement.)
  • When was the deadline for school integration set?
    September 1960
  • Who drove Ruby to her first day at the white school?
    US Federal Marshalls
  • What does essential mean?
    important and necessary
  • What does crisis mean?
    Turning point; difficult period
  • What else happened in 1954 (coincidentally, the year Ruby was born?)
    The US Supreme Court ordered the end of "separate but equal" education for African Americans.
  • What states in the 1950s continued to have all-white schools?
    Louisiana and Mississippi
  • What does barricades mean?
    objects blocking a road to prevent people from entering
  • The Supreme Court is part of the United States________ system.
    justices
  • What does whirlwind mean?
    Confused rush
  • What happened in 1957?
    Nine black high school students enrolled in a white school in Arkansas
  • What does district mean?
    particular area of the city
  • In the 1950's and 1960's, many people fought for __________, or equal treatment of all Americans.
    civil rights
  • What is the NAACP?
    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  • What does pressured mean?
    tried hard to convince
  • Many states in the south practiced __________. They wanted to keep students apart.
    Segregation
  • What year was Ruby born?
    1954
  • ___________ of the Supreme Court hear cases and make decisions that affect many people.
    Justices
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