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38 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
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Nonviolent resistance
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Required that protesters not resort to violence, even when others attacked them.
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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 Coordination 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 hoped to launch new nonviolent protests against racial discrimination.
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Freedom riders
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Hoped to draw attention to violations of the Supreme Court ruling while on bus trips through 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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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
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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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Coordinate voter registration drives.
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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, was ratified in January 1964
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Freedom Summer
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SNCC recruited volunteers on university campuses in northern states
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Andrew Goodman
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A college student form New York, arrived in Mississippi on June 20th
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James Chaney and michael Schwerner
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June 21st, they disappeared.
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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 and her house when she registered to vote in 1962
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Voting Rights Act
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Put 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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People who were attracted to the views of African American organizations
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Elijah Muhammad
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Leader of the Nation of Islam,
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Malcom 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 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 separatism
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Bobby Seale, 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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Declared, "Black people will not be free until we are free to determine our own destiny."
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Kerner Commission
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Report charged that white racism was largely responsible for the tensions that led to for the tensions that led to the riots.
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Poor People's Campaign
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Include a march on Washington, D.C., to protest what he saw as a misuse of government spending.
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Ralph Abernathy
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Told the marchers on their way to Capitol Hill, "We have business on the road to freedom...We must prove to white America that you ca kill the leader but you cannot kill the dream."
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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 to compensate for previous discrimination.
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University of California v. Bakke/Allan Bakke
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Ruled that a white man, Alan Bakke, had been unfairly denied admission to medical school on the basis of quotas.
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Quotas
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System reserved a fixed number of openings for certain groups of people.
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Carl Stokes
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Elected mayor of Cleveland
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National Black Political Convention
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Some 2,700 and another 4,000 people attended the convention.
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