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31 Cards in this Set
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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An alliance of church-based African American organizations dedicated to ending discrimination
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Led the new organization SCLC
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Nonviolent resistance
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The SCLC pledged to use this in 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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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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The success of the student sit-ins inspired this
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Freedom Riders
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CORE leaders planned to send an integrated group of these on bus trips to the South
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T. Eugene "Bull" Connor
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Blamed the Freedom Riders for violence
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Diane Nash
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Explained: I strongly felt that the future of the movement was going to be cut short if the Freedom Ride had been stopped as a result of violence. The impression would have been given that whenever a movement starts, all you have to do is attack it with massive violence and the blacks will stop
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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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Laruei Pritchett
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Was prepared for the demonstrations. He arranged to fill all jails in the surrounding areas with protesters
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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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Selected McComb, Mississippi, a town of some 12,000 citizens
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Council of Federated Organizations
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Several civil rights organization established this to coordinate voter registration drives
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Twenty-fourth Amendment
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Banned the payment of poll taxes as condition for voting in federal elections
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Freedom Summer
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Moses's plan that was implemented by SNCC in the Spring
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Andrew Goodman
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A college student from New York that arrived in Mississippi on June 20
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James Chaney
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He, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman disappeared after Andrew Goodman arrived in Mississippi
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Michael Schwerner
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He, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman disappeared after Andrew Goodman arrived in Mississippi
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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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COFO helped create this
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Fannie Lou Hamer
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An African American who had lost her job
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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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Explained "We no longer are a tight fellowship of a dedicated advocates of a brilliant new method of social change. We are now a large family spawned by the union of the method-oriented pioneers and the righteously indignant ends-oriented militants"
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Elijah Muhammad
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Became the leader of the nation of islam
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Malcolm X
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A charismatic young minister
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Stokely Carmichael
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Worked for SNCC
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Black Power
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Called for black separatism
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Bobby Seale
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Worked with Huey Newton
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Huey Newton
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Worked at an antipoverty center in Oakland, California
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Black Panther Party
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A political organization
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