Ch.29

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Thurgood Marshall

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1908 - 93 associated justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1967- 91

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Brown v. board of Education of Topeka

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Marshalls most stunning victory on May 17, 1954,

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Rosa Parks

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a seamstress and an NAACP officer, took a seat in the front row of the "colored" section of a Montgomery bus.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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26 year old pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church to lead the boycott.

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

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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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in which African American protesters sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until they were served.

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freedom riders

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

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James Meredith

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an air force veteran who won a federal court case that allowed him enroll in the all white University of Mississippi, nicknamed Ole Miss.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender.

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Freedom Summer

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a project to register African American voters in Mississippi

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Frannie Lou Hamer

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The daughter of Mississippi sharecroppers, would be their voice at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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Law that made it easier for African Americans to register to vote by eliminating discriminatory literary tests and authorizing federal examiners to enroll voters denied at the lical level

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de facto segregation

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segregation that exists by practice and custom

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de jure segregation

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or segregation by law, because eliminating it requires changing peoples attitudes rather than repealing laws.

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Malcolm X

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declared to a harlem audience "if you think we are here to tell you to love the white man, you have come to the wrong place."

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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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Stokely Carmichael

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of SNCC decided to lead their followers in a march to finish what Meredith had started

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Black Power

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a slogan used by Stokely Carmichael in the 1960's 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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which President Johnson had appointed to to study the causes of urban violence, issued its 200,000 word report.

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Civil Rights Acts of 1968

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which ended 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.