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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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an alliance of church-based African American organizations dedicated to ending decimation
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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was the leader of the new organization and was the best civil rights movement leader.
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nonviolent resistance
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in any means to not use violence in protest
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sit-ins
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protests that you sat in a place and not leave
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Student nonviolent coordinating committee
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an association of student activist from the south.
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Congress of Racial Equality
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a northern based civil rights group
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Freedom Riders
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a group of civil rights workers who went to bus trips in the south to protest illegal bus segregation in 1961
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T. Eugene Connor
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Birmingham city commissioner of public safety who said that the freedom riders were bad people.
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Diane Nash
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SNCC Leader
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James Meredith
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the first African American to enter a college in the south
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Medgar Evers
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NAACP field secretary assassinated by a white guy
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Laurie Pritchett
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was the police chief who filled his jail with protesters
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Civil rights act of 1964
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banded discrimination in employment based on race and color.
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Robert Moses
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SNCC who registered 250 African American to vote in Mississippi
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Council of Federated Organizations
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an organization that coordinated 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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when the SNCC implemented moses plan
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andrew goodman
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a college student from new york who went to mississippi, who disappeared with other two CORE workers
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James Chaney
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Two CORE workers who disappeared
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Michael Schwerner
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Two CORE workers who disappeared
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Mississippi freedom democratic party
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When all the african americans canidates came to make their own party.
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Fannie Lou Hamer
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was a woman who lost everything because 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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1962 CORE director
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Nation of Islam
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People who were attached to the African Americans organizations
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Elijah Muhammad
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Became the leader of the Nation of Islam in 1930's
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