Ch. 29

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Thurgood Marshall

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he led cases against the Supreme Court

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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

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a 1954 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” education for black and white students was unconstitutional.

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Rosa Parks

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refused to give up her seat to a white person on the bus and was jailed and started up the fire for equality

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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the leader of the civil rights movement who had to famous I Have A Dream Speech and once he won he was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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an organization formed in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders to work for civil rights through nonviolent means.

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

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an organization formed in 1960 to coordinate sit-ins and other protests and to give young blacks a larger role in the civil rights movement.

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Sit-in

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a form of demonstration used by African Americans to protest discrimination, in which the protesters sit down in a segregated business and refuse to leave until they are served.

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freedom rider

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one of the civil rights activists who rode buses through the South in the early 1960s to challenge segregation.

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James Meredith

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an Air Force Veteran was allowed to register in Ole Miss and he was then met by the governor of Mississippi and told him he couldn't enroll in the school and he then President Kennedy ordered federal marshalls to escort him into the school

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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a law that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin, or religion in public places and most workplaces

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Freedom Summer

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a 1964 project to register African-American voters in Mississippi.

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Fannie Lou Hamer

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the voice for the right to vote for all in the democratic convention

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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a law that made it easier for African Americans to register to vote by eliminating discriminatory literacy tests and authorizing federal examiners to enroll voters denied at the local level.

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de facto segregation

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racial separation established by practice and custom, not by law.

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de jure segregation

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racial separation established by law.

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Malcolm X

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believed in the civil rights with aggressive

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Nation of Islam

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a religious group, popularly known as the Black Muslims, founded by Elijah Muhammad to promote black separatism and the Islamic religion.

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Stokley Carmichael

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continued the march

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Black Power

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a slogan used by Stokely Carmichael in the 1960s that encouraged African-American pride and political and social Leadership.

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Black Panthers

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a militant African-American political organization formed in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to fight police brutality and to provide services in the ghetto.

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Kerner Commission

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a group that was appointed by President Johnson to study the causes of urban violence and that recommended the elimination of de facto segregation in American Society.

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Civil Rights Act of 1968

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a law that banned discrimination in Housing.

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affirmative action

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a policy that seeks to correct the effects of past discrimination by favoring the groups who were previously disadvantaged.