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77 Cards in this Set
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Jo Ann Robinson
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Dec 5th 1955, spent night making 35,000 copies, lost job, professor at Montgomery black college
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Rosa Parks
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secretary of NAACP, didn’t give up seat
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Emmett Till
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14 yr old killed in Money Mississippi
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Ralph Abernathy
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minister of the First Baptist church
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Fred Shuttlesworth
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minister bethel Baptist (poorside) “if it takes getting killed for integration I will do it” tried to integrate his kids and got beaten
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CT Vivian
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challenged sheriff Clark, called him Nazi, let voters to Selma courthouse to protest voting rights, member of SCLC, led march where Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot
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James Bevel
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Diane Nash’s husband, minister, veteran of Nashville sit ins, wanted to use children as demonstrators in Birmingham
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Diane Nash
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Fiske university freshman, greenboro NC Woolworth sitins
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Ella Baker
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60 helped create SNCC, sent by SCLC, graduated from shawuni
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Fannie Lou Hamer
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Ruleville Mississippi, bullet right above his head, member of MFDP, president Johnson took her off TV
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Daisy Bates
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escort mentor NAACP president
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Melba Pattillo Beals
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Junior central High
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Carlotta Walls LaNier
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sophomore central high
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Ernest Green
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senior central high
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Bull Connor
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commissioner of public safety, put hoses or innocent
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Roy Bryant
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Killed Emmett Till
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Carolyn Bryant
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Roy’s wife
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JW Milam
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helped kill Emmett Till
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James Chaney
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one of 3 missing in Meridian, Miss. On June 21st
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Andrew Goodman
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from Queens, one of 3 missing in Meridian, Miss. On June 21st
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Michael Schwerner
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“ jew boy w/ Beard,” one of 3 missing in Meridian, Miss. On June 21st
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Sheriff Jim Clark
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sheriff of Pailville, AL, poked people w/ belly stick
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Addie Mae Collins
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one of 4 girls killed in 16th St Baptist Church on Sept 15th 1963
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Cynthia Wesley
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one of 4 girls killed in 16th St Baptist Church on Sept 15th 1963
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Carole Robertson
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one of 4 girls killed in 16th St Baptist Church on Sept 15th 1963
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Denise McNair
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one of 4 girls killed in 16th St Baptist Church on Sept 15th 1963
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Byron de la Beckwith
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suspect in the shooting of Medgar Evars
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Medgar Evers
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leader of CORE in Mississippi, was assassinated, shot
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Elizabeth Eckford
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smallest of Central High, in famous picture
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Orville Faubus
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Govenor of Arkansas, said “there will be blood in the streets” on Labor Day
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Jim Lawson
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started passive resistance in Nashville, did training for sit ins
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Jim Forman
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trainer from freedom summer
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James Hicks
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reporter for Amsterdam News.. the only black in the courtroom at the time of Emmett Till’s Trial
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L. Alex Wilson
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black press, was hit on head with a brick during Central High Integration
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Jimmie Lee Jackson
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on a night walk, jumped in front of mother, killed, people were fed, up, wanted to bring his body to the capitol steps, and inspired walk from Selma, Montgomery
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Virgil Lamar Ware
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Also killed on Sept 15th ’63 (same as 4 girls), was shot by 2 whites on a motorbike after attending a rally
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Thurgood Marshall
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lawyer for Brown v. Board
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Joe Smitherman
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mayor of Selma, said “Martin Luther Coon… Oops”
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David Vann
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lawyer friend of A.G. Gaston, the only white person he would talk to
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George Wallace
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AL governor, ignorant, said “segregation today, segregation tomorrow… segregation forever”
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Earl Warren
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new supreme court justice
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Bob Moses
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Director of SNCC Mississippi project, helped to organize freedom riders to travel across south
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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spokesperson for civil rights movement
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John Lewis
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began sitin w/ Diane Nash in ’60, now a congressman in Atl, organized Freedom rides ‘61
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Hosea Williams
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(w/ Andy Young and James Bevel flipped a coin to choose who would lead march across Edmund Pettus Bridge. Member of SCLC)
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Viola Liuzzo
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white homemaker from Detroit, drove them back to homes from the march… was followed and killed by KKK
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SCLC
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Southen Christian Leadership Conference
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SNCC
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Bob Moses, started from SCLC, Ella Baker encouraged students to start their own group
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MFDP
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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Fannie Lou Hamer
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CORE
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Committee of Racial Equality 1942 Jim Framer started it in Chicago.. the only non
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MIA
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Montgomery Improvement Association, started with the bus boycott
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NAACP
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Nat’l Association for Advancement of Colored People
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May 17, 1954
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Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
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August 1955
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Emmett Till died
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December 1955
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Dec 1. Rosa Parks said no, Dec. 5, Bus boycott
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September 1957
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Central High Integration
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February 1, 1960
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Birth of SitIns
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May 1961
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Freedom Rides
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April- May 1963
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Birmingham 1st hosing against innocent protestors
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June 11, 1963
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Kennedy gave a speech and submitted civil rights legislation
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June 12, 1963
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Assassination of Medgar Evers
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August 28, 1963
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MLK’s “I have a dream” speech @ March on Washington
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September 15, 1963
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16th St. Baptist bombing AND killing of Virgil Lamar Ware
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November 22, 1963
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Kennedy assassinated
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March 25, 1965
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walk from Selma to Montgomery
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April 4, 1968
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black students went bowling, got put in jail, students protested & 3 boys killed??
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Money Mississippi
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Emmett Till was killed here, place of Roy & Carolyn Bryant
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Little Rock, Arkansas
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Central High integrated
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Greensboro, NC
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Nash and Bevel, sitins @ woolworths
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Nashville, TN
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prepared for sit ins
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Montgomery, AL
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bus boycotts, Rosa Parks
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Birmingham, AL
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hosing of innocent victims
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Philadelphia, Miss.
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Schwerner Cheney and Goodman missing
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Jackson, Miss.
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freedom ride stopped here, Medgar Evers murdered here
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Anniston, AL
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bus for freedom rides was blown up
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Selma, AL
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began walk to Montgomery b/c of Jimmie Lee Jackson
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Marion, AL
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where King and Loretta married, also where Jimmie Lee Jackson was from
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