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22 Cards in this Set
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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an alliance of church-based African American organization dedicated to ending discrimination
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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led the new organization against discrimination.
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non violent resistance
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required that protesters not resort to violence, even when others attacked them.
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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 Coordination 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 hoped to launch new nonviolent protests against racial discrimination
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Freedom Riders
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a group of people who took bus trips through the South, they hoped to draw attention to violations of the supreme court ruling
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T. Eugene Connor
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Blamed Freedom Riders for violence
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Diane Nash
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Explained why SNCC didnt want the rides to be stopped
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James Meredith
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African American Applicant
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Laurie Pritchett
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police chief who was prepared for demonstrations on nonviolent protests
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Civil Rights Act of 1974
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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 12,000 citizens, with just 250 registered african americans, it would be the site of his first effort to register black voters.
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Council of Federated Organizations
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to coordinate 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, was ratified in January 1964
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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, was murdered and found six weeks after he arrived in Mississippi
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James Chaney
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Murdered in mississippi along with Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman
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Michael Schwerner
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Murdered in mississippi, along with Andrew Goodman and James Chaney
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Andrew Goodman
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A college student from New York, was murdered and found six weeks after he arrived in Mississippi
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James Chaney
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Murdered in mississippi along with Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman
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Michael Schwerner
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Murdered in mississippi, along with Andrew Goodman and James Chaney
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