3. Match the description with the event or court case. The event or court case will only be used once. a. Burke High School students
1. Organized a sit in at the segregated lunch counter of S. H. Kress & Co. in Charleston,
S. C.
b. Loving v. Virginia
2. Fought to correct unfair wages and hiring practices, improve working conditions, and
obtain equal treatment in the workplace
c. Brown v. Board of Education
3. U. S. Supreme Court ruled that interracial marriage laws violated the 14th Amendment d. Elmore v. Rice
4. U. S. Supreme Court ruled the white primary was unconstitutional.
e. Briggs v. Elliott
f. Friendship Nine
5. U. S. Supreme Court overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and ruled that separate but equal
was inherently unequal
g. Charleston Nurses Strike
6. Parents did not seek integration but thought the school district should pay for gas and
repairs on the used bus families bought for their children to take their children to
school
7. Students who agreed that they would not accept their bail and serve out their
sentences, "Jail, No Bail."
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