Chapter 31

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Southern Christian Leadership conference

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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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The SCLC used 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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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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Inspired by the success of the student sit-ins

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T.Eugene Connor

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Blamed the freedom riders for the violence

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James Meredith

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African American applicant at the university of Mississippi

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Laurie Pritchett

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Police chief who was prepared for the demonstrations

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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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Council of Federated organizations

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Coordinate vote registration drivers

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Robert Moses

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Selected McComb Mississippi, a town of some 12,000 citizens

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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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Moses's plan

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Andrew Goodman

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College student from New York, arrived in Mississippi on June 20th

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James Chaney

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Disappeared June 21st, his body was discovered six weeks later, buried in an earthen dam

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Michael Schwerner

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Disappeared June 21st, his body was discovered 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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African American who lost her job and her home when she registered to vote in 1962

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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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CORE director

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Nation of Islam

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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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Malcolm x

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Charismatic young minster

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Stokely Carmichael

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Noted "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

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Worked with Huey newton at an antipoverty center in Oakland California

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Huey newton

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Created a political organization called the black Panther party

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Black panther party

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Political organization

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Kerner Commission

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President Johnson appointed him 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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Told the marchers on their way to Capitol Hill

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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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It ruled that a white man had been unfairly denied admission to medical school on the basis of quotas

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Allan Bakke

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had been unfairly denied admission to medical school on the basis of quotas

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Quotas

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System that reserved a fixed number of openings for certain groups of people

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National Black Political Convention

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Activists met in Indiana to ensure that African Americans would continue to gain political influence