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42 Cards in this Set
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Nonviolent Resistance
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Protest strategy that calls for peaceful demonstrations and the rejection of violence.
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Sit-Ins
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Demonstrations in which protesters sit down in a location and refuse to leave.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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Alliance of church-based African American organizations formed in 1957 and dedicated to ending discrimination.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Man who led the new organization of Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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Student organization formed in 1960 to coordinate civil rights demonstrations and to provide training for protesters.
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Congress of Racial Equality
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Northern-based civil rights group that organized nonviolent protests.
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Freedom Riders
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A group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation.
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T. Eugene Connor
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Birmingham's city commissioner of public safety, who blamed the Freedom Riders for the violence.
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Diane Nash
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SNCC leader who refused to comply with the President's request.
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James Meredith
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An African American applicant, the University of Mississippi was required to admit.
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Medgar Evers
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Myrle Ever's husband, who was the NAACP field secretary, who was killed by a white assassin.
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Laurie Pritchett
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Police Chief in Albany, Georgia, where civil rights organizations held a number of nonviolent protests in 1961.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Law banning racial discrimination in the use of public facilities and in employment practices.
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Robert Moses
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SNCC member who selected McComb, Mississippi, to carry out their plans of demonstration.
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Council of Federated Organizations
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Group created by several civil rights organizations to coordinate voter registration drives in the 1960s.
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Twenty-fourth Amendment
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Constitutional amendment that banned the payment of poll taxes as a condition for voting in federal elections.
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Freedom Summer
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Campaign to register African American voters in Mississippi during the summer of 1964.
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Andrew Goodman
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A college student from New York, who arrived at Mississippi on June 20.
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James Chaney
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CORE worker who disappeared, his body was found six weeks later, buried in an earthen dam.
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Michael Schwerner
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CORE worker who disappeared, his body was found six weeks later, buried in an earthen dam.
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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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Group that sent its own delegates to the Democratic National Convention in 1964 to protest discrimination against black voters in Mississippi.
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Fannie Lou Hamer
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An African American who had lost her job and her house when she registered to vote in 1962.
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Voting Rights Act
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Law that put voter registration under federal government control.
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James Farmer
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CORE director, organization's first leader, serving as the national chairman from 1942 to 1944.
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Nation of Islam
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Black Muslims; black nationalist religious group founded by Wallace D. Fard in 1930.
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Elijah Muhammad
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The Black Muslims leader, when the Nation of Islam claimed some 8,000 members.
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Malcolm X
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A charismatic young minister for the Nation of Islam.
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Stokely Carmichael
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Leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party.
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Black Power
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Black separatist movement that grew out of frustration with the slow pace of the civil rights movement.
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Bobby Seale
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Worked with Huey Newton at an antipoverty center in Oakland, California.
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Huey Newton
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Worked with Bobby Seale at an antipoverty center in Oakland, California.
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Black Panther Party
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Political organization formed in the 1960s that called for empowerment of and defense for African Americans.
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Kerner Commission
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Federal commission that investigated the 1960s riots and blamed them on white racism.
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Poor People's Campaign
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s proposed movement to protest the believed misuse of government spending away from antipoverty programs.
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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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Quotas
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System reserved a fixed number of openings for certain groups of people.
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Ralph Abernathy
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A leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, a minister.
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University of California V. Bakke
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Supreme Court decision that established that while some forms of affirmative action were legal quota systems were not.
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Allan Bakke
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Had been unfairly denied admission to medical school on the basis of quotas.
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Carl Stokes
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Elected mayor of Cleveland, first African American to be elected mayor of a major U.S. city.
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National Black Political Convention
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Meeting of civil rights activists to ensure that African Americans would continue to gain political influence.
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