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Freedom Summer
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SNCC & CORE volunteers attempted to register and organize African Americans to vote- 3 civil right workers were killed
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voting rights act 1965
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eliminated literacy tests as a requirement to vote and allowed federal gov't workers to register voters- greatly increased african american voters
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Thurgood Marshall
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civil rights activists, defending lawyer in Brown vs. board of education case.
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Martin Luther King
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civil right activist created SCLC and gave the famous speech "I have a dream
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Ernest green
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became first african american to graduate from little rock central high school 1958
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Diane Nash
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she was a civil right activist
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Stokley Charmichael
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civil right activist created the "black power" sloganhe was also in SNCC
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Malcolm X
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was a follower of Elijah Muhammad
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