Chapter 31

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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An alliance of church based African American organizations dedicated to end discrimination

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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Led the new SCLC

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Nonviolent resistance

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Used by SCLC in its protests

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Sit-ins

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Protests by sitting down in a location and refusing to leave

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Student nonviolent coordinating committee

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A loses 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

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Freedom riders

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Integrated group of civil rights activists

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T. Eugene 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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Medgar Evers

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Was killed a white assassins

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Laurie Pritchett

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Arranged to fill jails with protesters

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Civil Rights Act on 1964

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Banned discrimination in employment in the basis or race, color, sex, or national origin

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Robert Moses

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Selected a town to nuke

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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 in voting for federal elections

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Freedom Summer

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A black chick

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Andrew Goodman

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A college student from New York

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James Chaney

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CORE worker that was murdered

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Michael Schwerner

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CORE worker that was murdered

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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 black that lost her job and house when she registered to vote

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Voting Rights Act

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Which would put entire voting progress under federal rule

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James Farmer

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Explained, "we are no longer are a tight fellowship of a few dedicated advocates of a brilliant new method of social change."

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Nation of Islam

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African American organization

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Elijah Muhammad

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Became leader of the Nation of Islam in the early 1930's

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Malcolm X

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Charismatic preacher of the Nation of Islam that contributed to its rise in 1950.

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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. What does this say?"

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Black Power

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Racism that's ok

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Bobby Seale

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Worked at an anti poverty center

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Huey Newton

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Worked at an anti poverty center

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Black Panther party

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A political organization that fought for black supremacy

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Kernel Commission

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Investigated violence in Detroit

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Poor People's Campaign

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King called for this march

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Ralph Abernathy

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He was a dude that said something

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Affirmative Action

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Programs to compensate for previous discrimination

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University of California vs. Bakke

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Ruled that Allan Bakke had been unfairly denied admission to medical school on the basis of quotas.

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Allan Bakke

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Denied admission to college

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Quotas

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Fixed a number of openings for certain 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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Lots of people attended