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42 Cards in this Set
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SCLC
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Led the new organization of SCLC
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Nonviolent Resistance
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Protests that are nonviolent
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Sit-ins
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Protest by sitting down and refusing to leave
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SNCC
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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CORE
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Congress of Racial Equality
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Freedom Riders
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Rode buses around the south in protest
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T. Eugene Connor
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Birmingham's city commissioner
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Diane Nash
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SNCC leader
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James Meredith
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African American applicant
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Medgar Evers
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NAACP field security
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Laurie Pritchett
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Police chief of Albany
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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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With the SNCC
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COFO
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Council of Federated Organizations
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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.
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Freedom Summer
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The summer named
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Andrew Goodman
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Killed
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James Chaney
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Also was killed
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Michael Schwerner
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Killed also
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MFDP
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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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Fannie Lou Hamer
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MFDP delegate
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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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African American Organization
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Elijah Muhammad
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Leader of Nation of Islam
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Malcolm X
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Charismatic young minister
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Stokely Carmichael
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Part of the SNCC
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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 in anti-poverty center
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Huey Newton
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Worked in anti-poverty center
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Black Panther Party
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Political organization
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Kerner Commission
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Investigated the riots.
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Poor People's Campaign
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March on Washington to protest the misuse of government spending.
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Ralph Abernathy
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Leader of the SCLC
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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
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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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Man involved in case of Bakke vs. California
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Quotas
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Reserved a fixed number of openingsfor 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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Black people met.
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