Chapter 31

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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An alliance of church based African American organizations dedicated to stopping discrimination.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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Led the new organization of the SCLC

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Nonviolent resistance

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Protests that didn't have violence even when attacked.

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Sit-ins

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Demonstrations where the people would sit in a location and refuse to leave.

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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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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Protesters who rode on bus's to draw attention to violations of the Supreme Court Ruling.

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T. Eugene "Bull" Connor

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Blamed the Freedom Riders for the violence against protesters.

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James Meredith

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African American Applicant to the University of Mississippi.

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Medgar Evers

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NAACP secretary that was killed by a white assassin.

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Laurie Pritchett

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Police Chief who made plans to arrest all protesters. Meeting "nonviolence with nonviolence".

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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's member who selected McComb, Mississippi for civil rights organization area.

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Council of Federated Organizations

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Created to coordinate voter registration drives.

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Twenty-Fourth 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 to help the problems still seen with voting.

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Andrew Goodman

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A college student from New York who was found dead along with James Chaney and Michael Schwerner

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James Chaney

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murdered along with Andrew Goodman and Michale Schwerner

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Michael Schwerner

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Murdered along with Ander Goodman and James Chaney.

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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

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Formed its own delegation after a state party denied all African American Candidates.

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Frannie Lou Hamer

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African American who had lost her job and her house when she registered to vote in 1962.

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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.

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Nation of Islam

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People who were attracted to the views of African American Organizations.

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Elijah Muhammad

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Became the leader of everything muslim!

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Malcom X

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A charismatic young minister.

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Stokely Carmichael

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SNCC member.

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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 with Huey Newton at an anti poverty center in Oakland, California. Created the Black Panther Party.

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Huey Newton

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worked with Bobby Seale at an anti poverty center in Oakland, California. Created the Black Panther Party.

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Black Panther Party

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Party 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 the violence of rioting.

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Poor Peoples Campaign

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Included a march on Washington D.C. to protest what he saw as a misuse of government spending.

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Ralph Abernathy

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Told the marchers on their way to Capitol Hill "We must prove to white America that you can kill the leader, but you cannot kill the dream.

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Busing

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sending children to schools outside of their neighborhoods, to integrate schools.

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Affirmative Action

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programs to compensate for previous discrimination.

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University of California v. Bakke

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Ruled that a whiteman had been unfairly denied admission to medical school on the basis of quotas.

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Allan Bakke

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the man that was unfairly denied admission to medical school.

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Quotas

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System that reserved a fixed number of openings for certain groups of people

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Carl Stokes

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Elected mayor of Cleveland. First African American to be elected mayor of a major U.S. city.

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National Black Political Convention

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Ensured that African Americans would continue to gain political influence, activists met in this convention.

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Twenty-Fourth Amendment

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banned payment of poll taxes as a condition for voting in federal elections.