Chapter 31

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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an alliance of church based African American organizationa dedicated to ending discrimination

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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He led the new organization

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nonviolent resistance

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Protest strategy that calls for peaceful demonstrations and the rejection of violence

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sit ins

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demonstrators orotest by sitting down in a location and refusing to leave

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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A 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 organized nonviolent protests

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Freedom Riders

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A group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation

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T. Eugen Connor

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He blamed the freedom riders for the 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

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Medgar Evers

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Was killed by a white assassin

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Laurie Pritchett

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Police Chief that was prepared for the demonstration

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CivilRights 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 _____ selected McComb, Mississippi, a town of some 12,000 citizens

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Council of Federated Organizations

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Group created by several civil rights organizations to corrdinate voter registration drives in the 1960's

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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 was called this

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Andrew Goodman

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a college student from NY arrived in Mississippi on June 20

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James Chaney and Michael Schwerner

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two CORE workers who disappeared

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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

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Group that sent it's own delegates to the Democratic National Convention in 1964 to protest discrimination against black voters in Mississippi

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Fannie Lou Hamer

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an African American who had lost her job and er 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

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Nation of Islam

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Black Muslims

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Elijah Muhammad

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The leader

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Malcolm X

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a charismatic young minister

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Stokely Carmichael

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" What you want is the nation to be upset when any body is killed"

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Black Power

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movement called for black separatism

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Bobby Sealw

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Woked at an antipoverty center in Oakland

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Huey Newton

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worked at an antipoverty center in Oakland

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Black Panther Party

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declared " Black people will to 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

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Poor People's Campaign

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that would include a march on Washing D.C

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Ralph Abernathy

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He told the marches on their way to Capitol Hill

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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 that compensate for previous discrimination

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University of California v. Bakke

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It ruled a white man

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Allan Bakke

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He had been unfairly denied admission to medical school on the basis of quotas

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quotas

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system of reserving a fixed number of openings in schools or jobs for certain groups of people

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Carl Stokes

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He was elected mayor of Cleveland

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National Black Political Convention

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Meeting of civil rights activists to ensure that African Americans would continue to gain political influence