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39 Cards in this Set
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SCLC
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church based AA organization dedicated to ending discrimination
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King Jr.
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led the new organization
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nonviolent resistance
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SCLC pledged to use this in its protests
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sit-ins
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demonstrators protest by sitting down in a location and refusing to leave
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SNCC
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a loose association of student activists from and throughout the south
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CORE
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launch new nonviolent protests against racial discrimination
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Freedom RIders
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CORE send these people on a bus ride throughout the south
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Conner
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blamed the freedom riders for violence
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Diane Nash
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refused to comply
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Meredith
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an AA applicant
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Pritchett
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was prepared for demonstrations
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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banned discrimination in employment, race, color, sex, or national origin
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Robert Moses
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SNCC selected him
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COFO
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to 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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Moses plan
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Andrew Goodmen
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a college student from NY
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James Chaney MIchael Schwerer
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disappeared from CORE
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MFDP
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formed its own delegation
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Fannie Lou Hamer
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a AA who lost her job and house when she registered to vote in 1962
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Voting Rights Act
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1965 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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AA organization
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Muhammad
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became the Nation of Islam's leader
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Malcom X
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a charismatic young minister
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Charmichael
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AA victim of violence
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Black Power
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movement called for black separatism
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Bobby Seale and Huey Newton
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worked for antipoverty center in California
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Black Panther Party
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black people are not free until they determine their own destiny
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Kerner Commission
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to investigate the violence
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Poor People's Campaign
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that would include a march on Washington D.C to protest what he saw a misuse of gov. spending
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Ralph Abernathy
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told protestors we have business on the way to freedom
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busing
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or sending children to schools outside of their neighboorhoods
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Cali. v. Bakke
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it ruled white man Bakke unfairly denied admission to medical school
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affirmative action
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programs to compensate for previous discrimination
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Allan Bakke
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unfairly denied to medical school
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quotas
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reserved a fixed number of openings for certain groups of people
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Carl Stokes
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mayor of Cleveland
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National Black Political Convention
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to ensure AA would continue to gain political influence
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