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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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Marthin luthern king Jr
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Led the new orginaization
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Nonviolent resistance
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Not resorting to violence
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Sit-ins
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Demostrates 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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The success of the student sit-ins
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Freedom riders
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A bus trip through the south
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T.eugene connor
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Blamed the Freedom Riders forvthe violence
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James meredith
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An african american applicant
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Medgar Evers
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Was killed by a white assassin
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Civil rights act of 1964
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Banned discrimination in employment on the basis of color, race,religion, sex, or national origin
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Robert moses
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Selected McComb, Mississippi, a town of some 12,000 citizenss
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Council of Federated Orginaization
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Corrdinate voter registration drivers
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Twenty fourth amendment
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Banned the payment of poll taxes
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Diane Nash
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SNCC leader
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Laurie Pritchett
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Prepared for the demonstrations
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Freedom summer
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SNCC decided to implement Moses's plan
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Andrew Goodman
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A collage student from New York
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James Chaney
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CORE workers
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Michael Schwerner
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CORE workers
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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 lost her job and house when she registered to vote
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Voting rights act
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Put the entire registration process under federal control
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National of islam
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African American organizations
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Elijah muhammad
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Became the 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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SNCC's
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Black power
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Black separatism
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bobby seale
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Worked with huey newton
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Huey newton
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Works at antipoverty center in oklahoma
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Black panther party
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" black people will not be free until we are free to declared"
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Kerner commission
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To investigate the violence
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Poor people campaign
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To protest what he saw as minuse of government spending
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Ralph abernathy
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We have business on the road to freedom
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Busing
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Sending kids to schools outside their neighborhoods
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Affirmative actions
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University of california v. Bakke
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Allen bakke
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Quotas
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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 delegates and another 4,000 people attended the convention
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