Chapter 31 The Civil Rights Movement

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

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An alliance of church-based African American organizations

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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Led the SCLC

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Nonviolent resistance

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Required protesters to not resort to violence regardless circumstances

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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 (SNCC)

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A loose association of student activists from throughout the South

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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

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

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Freedom Riders

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Attempted to draw attention to violation of the Supreme Court Ruling against segregation

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T. Eugen "Bull" Connor

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Blamed the freedom riders of violence

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Diane Nash

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SNCC leader that explained why SNCC refused to comply with the president's request to end the bus rides

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James Meredith

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An African American applicant

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Laurie Pritchett

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Chief of police who met non-violence with non-violence and quietly jailed protesters.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Banned discrimination in employment

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Robert Moses

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Attempted to register black voters in McComb, Mississippi

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Council of Federated Organizations (COFO)

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Coordinated voter registration drives

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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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Helped civil rights workers

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Andrew Goodman

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College student from New York

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James Chaney

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Murdered because of civil rights involvement

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Michael Schwerner

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Murdered with James Chaney

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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

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Formed it's own delaegation

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Fannie Lou Hamer

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African American who lost her job and her house when she registered to vote

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Voting Rights Act

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Put the voting 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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View of African American organization

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Elijah Muhammad

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became leader of 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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Criticized the fact that it took the death of two white men to get the nation stirred

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Bobby Seale

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Worked at an anti-poverty center in California

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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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Political organization that attempted to incorporate African Americans into politics

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Kerner Commission

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Appointed by President Johnson to investigate racial violence

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Poor People's Campaign

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Protested the misuse of government spending

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Ralph Abernathy

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Strongly supported the Civil Rights movement

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Busing

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Sending children to schools outside their neighborhood

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Affirmative action

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Tried to compensate for previous discrimination

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University of California v. Bakke

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Rule that Allan Bakke, who was white, had veen unfairly denied admission to to medical school on the basis of quotas.

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Allan Bakke

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Unfairly denied admission to medical school

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Quotas

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system of reserving a fixed number of openings in schools or jobs for certain groups of people.

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Carl Stokes

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First African American mayor of a major U.S. city

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National Black Political Convention

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Convention in which delegates met to ensure that African Americans would continue to gain political influence