Chapter 31

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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

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Nonviolent resistance

Back 3

Pledged to be used in the SCLC's 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 associated of student activists form throughout the South

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Congress of Racial Equality

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northern-based civil rights group that hoped to launch new nonviolent protests against racial discrimination

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Freedom Rider

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Planned to be sent to draw attention to violations of the Supreme Court ruling

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T. Eugene Connor

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Birmingham's city commissioner,blamed the Freedom Riders for violence

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Diane Nash

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Explained the SNCC's reason for refusal to comply with the president's request

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James Meredith

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An African American applicant who made it into the University of Mississippi

Front 11

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Back 11

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

Front 12

Martin Luther King Jr.

Back 12

led the new organization

Front 13

Nonviolent resistance

Back 13

Pledged to be used in the SCLC's protests

Front 14

Sit-ins

Back 14

Demonstrators protest by sitting down in a location and refusing to leave

Front 15

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Back 15

A loose associated of student activists form throughout the South

Front 16

Congress of Racial Equality

Back 16

northern-based civil rights group that hoped to launch new nonviolent protests against racial discrimination

Front 17

Freedom Rider

Back 17

Planned to be sent to draw attention to violations of the Supreme Court ruling

Front 18

T. Eugene Connor

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Birmingham's city commissioner,blamed the Freedom Riders for violence

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Diane Nash

Back 19

Explained the SNCC's reason for refusal to comply with the president's request

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James Meredith

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An African American applicant who made it into the University of Mississippi

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Laurie Pritchett

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Was prepared for demonstrations; arranged to fill all the jails in the surrounding areas with protesters

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Medgar Evers

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Killed by a white assassin

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Civil Rights 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 to be the site of his first effort to register black voters

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Council of Federated Organizations

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Established to coordinate voter registration projects

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Twenty-fourth Amendment

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Banned the payment on university campuses in northern states

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Andrew Goodman

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A college student from New York, arrived in Mississippi on June 20
disappeared, found six weeks later buried in an earthen dam

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James Chaney

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disappeared, found six weeks later buried in an earthen dam

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Micahel schwerner

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disappeared, found six weeks later buried in an earthen dam

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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

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Formed its own delegation

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Fannie Lou Hamer

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An African American who had lost her job an her house when she registered to vote in 1963 among the MFDP delegates

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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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 fellowshiop of a few 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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Nation of Islam

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People who were attracted to the views of African American organizations

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Elijah Muhammad

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Becase the leader of the Nation of Islam

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Malcolm X

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A charismatic young minister who claimed, "Any Negro who teachers other Negroes to turn the other cheek is disarmingthat Negro of his natural right to defend himself."

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Stokely Carmichael

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"What you want is the nation to be upset when anybody is killed... It's almost like, for this to be recognized, a white person must be killed. Well, what does that say?"

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Black Power

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movement called for black serparatism

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Bobby Seale

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Worked at an antipoverty center in Oakland, California

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Huey Newton

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Worked at an antipoverty center in Oakland, California