Chapter 31

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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alliance of church-based African American organizations

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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 protesters not resort to violence

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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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northern-based civil rights group that hoped to launch new nonviolent protests against racial discrimination

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Freedom Riders

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bus trips through the south

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T. Eugene "Bull" Connor

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blamed the Freedom Riders

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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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Laurie Pritchett

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prepared for the demonstrations

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The 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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selected McComb, Mississippi, a town of some 120,0000 citizens

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Council of Federated Organizations

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coordinated voter registration drives

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24th Amendment

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banned the payment of poll taxes

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Freedom Summer

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recruited volunteers on university campuses

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Andrew Goodman

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a college student from New York, arrived in Mississippi on June 20

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James Chaney

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CORE worker

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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

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formed its own delegation

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Michael Schwerner

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CORE worker

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Fannie Lou Hamer

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African American who had 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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Nation of Islam

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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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charismatic young minister

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Stokely Carmichael

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African American victim of violence

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Bobby Seale

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worked with Huey Newton

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Huey Newton

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worked with Bobby Seale

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Black Panther Party

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party formed for African Americans

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Kerner Commission

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appointed to investigate the violence

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Stokley Carmichael

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African American victim of violence

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Poor People's Campaign

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Martin Luther King Jr. called for it and included a march on Washington DC

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Ralph Albernathy

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one of the SCLC leaders

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

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Allan Bakke

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unfairly denied admission to the University of California

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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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Carl Stokes

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mayor of Cleveland

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National Black Political Convention

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2,700 delegates and another 4,000 people attended the convention

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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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Diane Nash

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SNCC Leader