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17 Cards in this Set
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Thurgood Marshall
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leader of law students team that won 29 out of 32 cases
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Rosa Parks
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Was a African American women who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger
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MLK Jr.
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was a pastor who had his PhD degree in theology, he was a huge part of ending racism
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Southern Christians Leadership Conference
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ministers of and civil rights leaders, its purpose was to carry on nonviolent crusades against the evil of second class citizenship
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SNCC
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was a group of African American protestants
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Freedom Riders
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one of the civil rights activist who rode buses through the south in the early 1960s to challenge segregation
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Civil Rights Act 1964
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a law that banned discrimination on the bases of race, sex,national origin, or religion in public places and most work places
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Freedom Summer
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project to register African-American voters in Mississippi
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Voting Rights Act 1964
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a law that made it easier for African-Americans to register to vote by elimination of discriminatory literacy tests and authorizing federal examiners to enroll voters denied at the local letter
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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Case in 1954 which the supreme court ruled that "separate but equal" education for black and white students
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De jure segregation
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racial separation established by law
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Nation of Islam
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a religious group popularly known as "the black Muslims", founded by Elijah Muhammad to promote black separation
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Stokely Carmichael
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was apart of the SNCC and decided to lead his followers
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De jure segregation
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racial separation established by law
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Malcolm X
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Nation of Islam
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a religious group popularly known as "the black Muslims", founded by Elijah Muhammad to promote black separation
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Stokely Carmichael
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was apart of the SNCC and decided to lead his followers
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