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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
An alliance of church-based African American organizations dedicated to ending discrimination.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Led Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Nonviolent resistance
Required that protesters not resort to violence, even when others attacked them.
Sit-ins
Demonstaters protested by sitting down in a location and refusing to leave.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
A loose association of student activists from throughout the South.
Congress of Racial Equality
Northern based civil rights group that hoped to launch new nonviolent protests against racial discrimination.
Freedom Riders
Integrated group of people who hoped to draw attention to violations of the Supreme Court ruling.
T. Eugene Connor
Blamed Freedom Riders for violence when they crossed the Alabama state line.
Diane Nash
Leader of SNCC who explained why they refused to comply with the president's request to end the rides.
James Meredith
African American applicant that was admitted into the University of Mississippi.
Laurie Pritchett
Police chief who prepared for the demonstrations.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Banned discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Robert Moses
SNCC member who selected McComb, in small town MS, to register for black voters.
Council of Federated Organizations
Established to coordinate voter registration drives.
24th Amendment
Banned the payment of poll taxes as a condition for voting in federal elections.
Freedom Summer
Moses's plan.
Andrew Goodman
College student from NY who was murdered after arriving in MS.
James Chaney
Murdered along with Andrew Goodman.
Michael Schwerner
Murdered along with Andrew Goodman.
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Formed its own delegation.
Fannie Lou Hamer
Among the MFDP delegates, an African American woman who had lost her job and house when she registered to vote.
Voting Rights Act
Put the entire registration process under federal control.
James Farmer
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."
Nation of Islam
African American organization.
Elijah Muhammad
Nation of Islam's leader.
Malcom X
Charismatic young minister of Nation of Islam.
Stokely Carmichael
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?"
Black Power
Movement that called for black separatism.
Bobby Seale
Worked at an antipoverty center in Oakland, California with Huey Newton.
Huey Newton
Worked at an antipoverty center in Oakland, California with Bobby Seale.
Black Panther Party
Political organization that declared, "Black people will not be free until we are free to determine our own destiny."
Kerner commission
Appointed to investigate violence.
Poor People's Campaign
Included a march on Washington DC to protest misuse of govt. spending.
Ralph Abernathy
"You can kill the leader, but you can't kill the dream."
University of Cali v. Bakke
Ruled that a white man had been unfairly denied admission on the basis of quotas.
Allan Bakke
Denied admission to medical school on the basis of quotas.
Quotas
System reserved a fixed number of openings for certain groups of people.
Carl Stokes
African American elected mayor of Cleveland.
National Black Political Convention
2,700 delegates and 4,000 people attended.
Busing
Sending children to schools outside of their neighborhoods.
Medgar Evans
NAACP secretary assassinated.