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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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An alliance of church-based African American organizations dedicated to ending discrimination.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Led Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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Nonviolent resistance
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Required that protesters not resort to violence, even when others attacked them.
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Sit-ins
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Demonstaters protested by sitting down in a location and refusing to leave.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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A loose association of student activists from throughout the South.
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Congress of Racial Equality
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Northern based civil rights group that hoped to launch new nonviolent protests against racial discrimination.
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Freedom Riders
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Integrated group of people who hoped to draw attention to violations of the Supreme Court ruling.
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T. Eugene Connor
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Blamed Freedom Riders for violence when they crossed the Alabama state line.
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Diane Nash
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Leader of SNCC who explained why they refused to comply with the president's request to end the rides.
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James Meredith
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African American applicant that was admitted into the University of Mississippi.
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Laurie Pritchett
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Police chief who prepared for the demonstrations.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Banned discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Robert Moses
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SNCC member who selected McComb, in small town MS, to register for black voters.
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Council of Federated Organizations
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Established to coordinate voter registration drives.
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24th Amendment
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Banned the payment of poll taxes as a condition for voting in federal elections.
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Freedom Summer
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Moses's plan.
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Andrew Goodman
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College student from NY who was murdered after arriving in MS.
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James Chaney
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Murdered along with Andrew Goodman.
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Michael Schwerner
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Murdered along with Andrew Goodman.
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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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Formed its own delegation.
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Fannie Lou Hamer
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Among the MFDP delegates, an African American woman who had lost her job and house when she registered to vote.
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Voting Rights Act
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Put the entire registration process under federal control.
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James Farmer
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CORE director who explained, "We no longer are a tight fellowship of a few dedicated advocates of a brilliant new method of social change. We are now a large family spawned by the union of the method-oriented pioneers and the righteously indignant ends-oriented militants."
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Nation of Islam
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African American organization.
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Elijah Muhammad
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Nation of Islam's leader.
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Malcom X
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Charismatic young minister of Nation of Islam.
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Stokely Carmichael
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SNCC member who noted, "What you want is the nation to be upset when anybody is killed...It's almost like, for this to be recognized, a white person must be killed. Well what does that say?"
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Black Power
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Movement that called for black separatism.
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Bobby Seale
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Worked at an antipoverty center in Oakland, California with Huey Newton.
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Huey Newton
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Worked at an antipoverty center in Oakland, California with Bobby Seale.
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Black Panther Party
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Political organization that declared, "Black people will not be free until we are free to determine our own destiny."
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Kerner commission
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Appointed to investigate violence.
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Poor People's Campaign
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Included a march on Washington DC to protest misuse of govt. spending.
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Ralph Abernathy
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"You can kill the leader, but you can't kill the dream."
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University of Cali v. Bakke
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Ruled that a white man had been unfairly denied admission on the basis of quotas.
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Allan Bakke
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Denied admission to medical school on the basis of quotas.
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Quotas
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System reserved a fixed number of openings for certain groups of people.
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Carl Stokes
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African American elected mayor of Cleveland.
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National Black Political Convention
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2,700 delegates and 4,000 people attended.
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Busing
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Sending children to schools outside of their neighborhoods.
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Medgar Evans
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NAACP secretary assassinated.
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