Chapter 31

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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alliance of church-based African American organizations dedicated to ending discrimination

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Matin Luther King Jr.

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led the SCLC

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nonviolent resistance

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basic rule by the SCLC, that required that protesters not resort violence, even when other attacked them

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sit-ins

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demonstrators protest by sitting down in a location and reusing 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

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Freedom Riders

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CORE send this group to draw attention to violations of the Supreme Court ruling

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T. Eugene "Bull" Connor

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Birmingham's city commissioner of public safety blamed Freedom Riders for violence

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Diane Nash

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SNCC leader

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James Meredith

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an African American applicant that was admitted by the University of Mississippi

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Laurie Pritchett

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Police Chief in Albany, Georgia, who filled all the jails in the surrounding areas with protester

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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banned discrimination in employment on the basic of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin

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Robert Moses

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SNCC's that selected McCom for his first effort to register black voters

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Council of Federal Organizations

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established to coordinate 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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Moses' plan to recruit volunteers on university campuses in northern states

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Andrew Goodman

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college student from New York, he and 2 other workers disappeared

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James Chaney

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CORE worker that got killed with Goodman

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Michael Schwerner

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Another CORE worker that got killed in Mississippi

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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

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formed its own delegation in Mississippi and wanted to get recognized by state delegations

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Fannie Lou Hamer

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African American that lost her job and house when 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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CORE director that held speeches about nonviolence goals

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Nation of Islam

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based on Islamic religion, emphasized the supremacy of black people over all other races

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Elijah Muhammad

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leader of the Nation of Islam

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Malcolm X

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charismatic young minister which work helped the growth of the Nation of Islam

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Stokely Carmichael

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SNCC's victim of violence that spoke our for a more violent reaction by the African American

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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 at an antipoverty center in Oakland, CA and tried to organize Youth

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Huey Newton

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worked together with Bobby Seale, founders of Black Panther Party

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Black Panther Party

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political organization that called for "land,bread,housing,education,clothing,justice, and peace" for African American

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Kerner Commission

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commission to investigate the violence in Detroit, where 43 people died

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Poor People's Campaign

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King called for this as a march on Washington D.C to protest what he saw as a misuse of gov. spending

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Ralph Abernathy

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SCLC speaker that incuoraged the marches on their way to Capitol Hill

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busing

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sending children to schools outside their neighborhoods

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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 white man about the case of Allan Bakke

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Allan Bakke

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had been unfairly denied medical admission

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qoutas

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system that reserves a fixed number of openings for certain groups of people

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Carl Stokes

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First African American to become mayor of a major U.S city (Cleveland)

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National Black Political Convention

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to ensure that African Americans would continue to gain political influence, activists met for this