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32 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 protestors not resort to violence
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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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Hoped to launch new nonviolent protests against racial discrimination
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Freedom Riders
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Send an integrated group of people on bus trips though the south
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T. Eugene Connor
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Blamed the freedom riders for the violence
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Diane Nash
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Explained why the SNCC refused to comply with the presidents request
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James Meredith
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NAACP made the university of Mississippi admit him
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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 orgin
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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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Whom Farmer spoke were 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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Malcolm X
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A charismatic young minister
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Stokely Carmichael
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Member of the SNCC
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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 at n antipoverty center in Oakland
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Huey Newton
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Worked at antipoverty center in Oakland
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Black Panther Party
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The two who worked at the antipoverty center created this
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Kerner Commission
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Investigate violence
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Poor people's campaign
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Protest the misuse of government spending
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Ralph Albernathy
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Leader of SCLC
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Busing
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Sending children 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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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 the right to go to medical school
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Quotas
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System if reserved a fixed number of openings for certain groups of people
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Carl Stokes
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Mayor of Cleveland
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National Black Political Convention
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Activists met at this
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