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41 Cards in this Set
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SCLC
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an alliance of church based African American organizations
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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The civil rights movement leader
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Nonviolent resistance
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what the sclc would use to protest
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sit-ins
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demonstrators would sit down and not leave
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SNCC
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A loose group of student activists from the south
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CORE
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Northern civil rights group that were from the north
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Freedom Riders
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People who went on bus trips to the south to different towns
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To eugene
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Blamed freedome riders for violence in the south
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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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Laurie Pritchett
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Police chief who was prepared for demonstrations
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Banned discrimination in emplyment
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Robert Moses
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A member of SNCC, worked for the first black voters
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COFO
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Used to coordinate voter registration drives
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24th Amendment
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Banned a payment of poll taxes as a condition for voting
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Freedom Summer
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Moses plan
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Andrew Goodman
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A Core worker who disappeared and was found six weeks later
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James Chaney
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A CORE worker who disappeared and his body was found six weeks later
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Michael Schwerner
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A CORE worker who disappeared and his body was found six weeks later
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MEDP
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Formed it's own delegation
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Gannie Lou Hamer
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Lost her job and home when she registered to vote
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Voting Rights Act
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Put the registration to vote under federal law
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James Farmer
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CORE director
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Nation of Islam
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African American Organization
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Elijah Muhammad
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Became Nation of Islam's 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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Said "What you want is the nation to be upset when anybody is killed"
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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 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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Wanted to create their own party
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Kerner Commission
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Was appointed to investigate the violence
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Poor People's Campaign
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Included a march on Washington D.C.
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Ralph Abernathy
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A leader of the march on Capitol Hill
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Busing
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Sending kids to schools outside of 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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Declared that a white man had been unfairly denied admission to medical school
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Allan Bakke
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Unfairly denied admission to medical school
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quotas
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Could only have so many black and white people
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Carl Stockes
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Elected mayor of Cleveland, he was black
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Nation Black Political Convention
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2,700 delgates and 4,000 other people attended this convention
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