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17 Cards in this Set
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Sit-ins
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College students sit-in "all-white" restaurants as a form of protest. (Greensbro) |
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SNCC
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Student non-violent coordinating committee, dedicated to replacing the culture of segregation w/ a "beloved community" of racial justice and to empowering ordinary blacks to take control of the decisions that affected their lives. |
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Freedom Rides
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Integrated groups traveled by bus into the Deep South to test compliance w/ court orders banning segregation on interstate buses and trains and in terminal facilities. Led to Interstate commerce commission to order bus and terminals desegregated. |
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Cold War over Civil Rights
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– Fear of Communist-Civil Rights link
-Fear black movement inspired by communism -U.S. could not declare itself the champion of freedom of the world, while maintaining a system of racial inequality |
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June 1963 Speech
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Kennedy went on national television to call for the passage of a law banning discrimination in all places of public accommodation |
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March on Washington
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Led by A. Philip Randolph; nonviolent civil rights movement. Called for civil rights, public works program to reduce unemployment, increase in minimum wage, and a law barring discrimination in employment. Black/white cooperation. |
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16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
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• Addie MaeCollins, 14• CynthiaWesley, 14• CaroleRobertson, 14• DeniseMcNair, 11
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Civil Rights Act
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After Kennedy dies, Lyndon Johnson becomes president. First order of business: legislation of civil right. Prohibited racial discrimination in employment, institutions, and privately owned public accommodations. |
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Democratic Campaign
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– George Wallace
– Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party |
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George Wallace
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extreme republican, ran against Johnson. However, was defeated because of his extreme beliefs, and opinions on nuclear war |
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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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MFDP- open to all residents of the state. Demanded a seat in the state's all-white offical party at the 1964 national convention |
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National Campaign
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– A Choice, Not an Echo (Schlafly)
– Barry Goldwater |
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CA Proposition 14
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repealed a 1963 law banning racial discrimination in the sale of real estate |
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Selma
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King attempted to lead a march from Selma, Alabama to the state capital in protest of being allowed to register to vote. Attacked by police, however, rights granted. |
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Voting Rights Act
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allowed federal officials to register to voter and outlawed the poll tax. |
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24nd Amendment
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outlawed the poll tax, which had long prevented poor blacks (and some whites) from voting in the South. |
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Freedom Summer
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Coalition of of civil rights groups organized a voter registration drive in Mississippi |
