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13 Cards in this Set
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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 gro
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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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civil rights activists that rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States
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civil rights act 1994
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independent commission of the U.S. federal government charged with the responsibility for investigating, reporting on, and making recommendations concerning civil rights issues that face the nation.
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freedom summer
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was a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964
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voting rights 1965
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discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for tdisenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S.
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the factor segregation
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in practice but not necessarily ordained by law"
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Malcom X
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was an African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist
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stokely carmichael
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was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s
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