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26 Cards in this Set
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Emmet Till
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-Teenager from Chicago
-Murdered in MI in 1955 for not acting by norms of Jim Crow -Murder was a catalyst for Black community to intensify the fight for civil rights. |
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Diane Nash
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-An organizer of the Nashville Student Movement, an early student org in civil rights fight.
-Became Nashville SNCC coordinator, organized SNCCers to finish CORE's freedom ride. |
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Ella Baker
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-SCLC executive director who supported SNCC's independence.
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Bob Moses
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-SNCC head organizer, active in deep south voter reg campaigns, like in McComb, MI.
-Director of COFO, which launched "Freedom Vote" in 1963, followed by "Freedom Summer" in 1964. -In SNCC split, was leader of the faction that advocated a breakaway from traditional top-down politics, while James Forman believed in more centralization. |
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Black Power Era
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-Response to the institutional racism left behind after Jim Crow, particularly in North.
-Inspired by writings of Malcolm X and others; Stokely Carmichael called for Black Power at a rally in MI. -Angrier voice than civil rights, reflecting the urban northern cities where it thrived. -Community power, ethnic solidarity. Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism. -Carmichael: fight against US colonial power. -Black Panthers in Oakland. -Sabotage by COINTELPRO |
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Author of the chapter in Scott
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Edward P. Morgan
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Brown v. Board of Ed, 1954-5
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-Overturned Plessy v Ferguson--"separate but equal"
-Chief Justice Warren agreed that segregated schools are harmful to Black school children's life chances and mentality. |
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Ended segregation in schools, workplace, and public accomodations.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Struck down discrimination in voter registration and anything that kept African Americans from being able to exercise the vote.
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Geography of Civil Rights
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-Montgomery, AL-- bus boycott
-Early student sit-ins in Greensboro and Nashville -Oxford MI -Albany GA -Bull Connor violence in Birmingham -McComb, MI -Selma/Montgomery march: Bloody Sunday when marchers were attacked. |
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Big Events in Civil Rights
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-Brown v. Board of Ed
-Montgomery Bus Boycott; shift from legislative fight to direct action -School integrations in Arkansas, Alabama University, etc. -Freedom Rides: James Farmer of CORE, integrating buses all over south to provoke a reaction from North and moderate whites -March on Washington to rally for Civil Rights bill -Birmingham church bombing -Murders of Emmet Till, NAACP regional director Medgar Evers -Freedom Vote 1963 and Freedom Summer 1964 -Chaney Schwerner and Goodman murder -Passage of Civil Rights Act -Selma March and Bloody Sunday: rally for voting rights act -Voting Rights act passed -Poor People's Campaign -Black Power -Black Panthers in 1966 |
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Year of Brown
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1954-5
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Year of Bus Boycott
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Begin in 1955
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Year of Emmet Till Murder
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1955
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Year that Students Entered Movement (Nashville, Greensboro, etc.,) and SNCC independence from SCLC
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1960
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Year, Motivation of Freedom Rides
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1961 (May 4th) for integrating the interstate bus system.
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Year, motivation of March on Washington
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1963, to press for a Civil Rights Act
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Year of Freedom Vote
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1963
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Year of Freedom Summer
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1964
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Year of Civil Rights Act
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1964
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Year of Voting Rights Act
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1965
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Year of Selma/Bloody Sunday
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1965
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Year of King's Poor People's Campaign
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1968, also year of his murder
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Dawn of Black Power
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1966
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Founding of Black Panthers
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1966
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Beginnings of COINTELPRO
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1968
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