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22 Cards in this Set
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sit-in
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is the act of protesting by sitting down
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SNCC
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was a key player in the civil right movement for several years.
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Ella Banker
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was a guiding spirit behind SNCC and one of its organizers.
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CORE
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decided whether the ruling was being enforced.
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Freedom Riders
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are African Americans and white CORE members left Washington D.C and got on 2 buses and went to New Orleans.
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Robert Kennedy
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is the U.S authority general,asked CORE to stop the freedom riders for a "cooling-off period."
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James Farmer
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is CORE leader and responded: "We have been cooling off for 350 years,. If we cool off anymore we will be in deep freeze."
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interstate
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those who crossed the state lines and in bus stations
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James Meredith
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was the student that was enrolled by the Mississippi university.
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Ross Barnett
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prevented Meridith from registering.
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George Wallace
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Governor and vowed he would "stand in the schoolhouse door" to block the integration of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
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Birmingham, Alabama
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the SCLC targeted here for a desegregation protest.
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Medgar Evers
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was state field secretary for the NAACP was murdered on June 11, 1963.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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who succeeded Kennedy, finally persuaded congress to pass the civil rights act of 1964.
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Freedom Summer
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is when thousands of civil right s workers spread throughout the southern to help African Americans register to vote.
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Selma, Alabama
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the SNCC organized a major demonstration here to protest the continued denial of African American right to vote.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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this act gave federal government the power to force local officials to allow African Americans to register to vote.
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Malcolm X
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a leader in the nation of Islam emerged as an important new voice for some African Americans.
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Stokely Carmichael
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became the leader of the SNCC, advanced the idea of black power.
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Black Power
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was a philosophy of racial pride that said African Americans should create their own culture and political institutions.
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Black Panther Party
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symbolized a growing tension between African Americans and urban police.
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Watts section of Los Angeles
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was the first major urban riots since the 1940's took place in the summer of 1965 and happened here.
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