Civil Rights Movement

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Thurgood Marshall

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1938 placed a team of his best law students under the direction

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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

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Marshall’s most stunning victory in May 7, 1954

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Rosa Parks

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December 1, 1955, a seamstress and an NAACP officer, took a seat in the front row of the “colored” section of a Montgomery bus.

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Martin Luther King, JR

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Pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, to lead the group.

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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Founded in 1957, King joined the ministers and civil rights leader to found this conference (SCLC)

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC

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1960 Baker helped students at school

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Freedom riders

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was to test the United States United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia (of 1960) challenged them riding bus that were segregated

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Civil Rights Act 1964

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legislation In the U.S. outlawed major forms discrimination against blacks and women.

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Freedom Summer

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campaign in Mississippi to put in as many black voters in the campaign in 1964

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Voting Rights Act 1965

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landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S.

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De Facto Segregation

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separation of races in daily life, like different bathrooms, restaurants, etc.

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Malcolm X

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African-American muslin minister writer for african american rights

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Nation of Islam

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African-American religious movement founded in Detroit, Michigan, by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad in July 1930. to improve african-AM. life

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Stokely Cormichael

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Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement.

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Black Power

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movement among people of Black African descent throughout the world, though primarily by African Americans in the United States 1965