A group of this many Black students in Rock Hill, South Carolina, pioneered the “Jail, No Bail” strategy after being arrested at a sit-in. For 10 points each:
[10m] What number also appears in the most common name of a 1972 anti-discrimination provision in education authored primarily by Patsy Mink?
ANSWER: nine [accept Title IX; accept Friendship Nine or Rock Hill Nine]
[10e] In 1957, Dwight Eisenhower sent federal troops to this southern capital city to escort a group of nine Black students desegregating a high school.
ANSWER: Little Rock [accept Little Rock Nine]
[10h] This activist recruited nine Black students from Tougaloo College for a sit-in at a library. This NAACP field secretary was rejected from a school that he later advised another Black student to successfully desegregate.
ANSWER: Medgar Evers (He advised James Meredith to desegregate the University of Mississippi.)
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