African American History Exam

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Rosa Parks

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1955 arrested for refusing to give up her seat in Montgomery.

Secretary of the Montgomery chapter naacp.

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Jo Ann Robinson

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Late 1940s. Screamed at for sitting in an empty seat in the white section of a bus that was empty fled the scene in fear.

Became president of WPC in 1950 focusing on desegregating buses.

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Fannie Lou Hamer

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1963. Arrested falsely in Mississippi with other and almost beaten to death. She was a voting rights activist.

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MFDP

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1964. Mississippi Democratic Party.

Created to challenge the legitimacy of the then white only Mississippi democratic party.

Voting rights.

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Stokely Carmichael

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1960s.

Participated in the freedom rides. Member of SNCC.

Credited with initializing the term black power.

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John Lewis

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Freedom Rider.

Spoke at 1963s March on Washington.

Led the demonstration tht became known as bloody Sunday.

Member if SNCC.

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Ella Baker

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1950s.

Field secretary for naacp.

Cofounded In Friendship to raise money against Jim crow.

Ran voter registration campaign called the crusade for citizenship.

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Emmitt Till

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1955.

14 year old boy who was murdered in Mississippi for flirting with a white woman.

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DuBois appeal to the world.

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1947.

A statement of denial of human rights to minorities in the case of citizens of negro descent in the u.s.

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Black Power

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During the Civil rights movement.

Emphasized black nationalism and self reliance.

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Watts

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1965.

Drunk driving arrest.

On lookers were angry at how the cops arrested him so they started riots on the street.

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Black Panthers

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Huey Newton & Bobby Seal were the founders.

It was a group made for self defense 1966.

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Cointelpro

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Counter intelligence program.

FBI infiltrated discredited and disrupted domestic political organizations.

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Fred Hampton

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Chairman of AA black panther party in illinois.

Murdered while sleeping during a raid by the county.

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Bobby Rush

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1960s.

Worked in civil disobedience campaigns.

Black Panthers defense minister.

Arrested for an unregister pistol.

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Jesse Jackson

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1980s.

Founder of rainbow/push.

Participated in selma to Montgomery marches.

Member of sclc.

Changed ppl to save humanity to people to serve humanity.

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Shirley Chisholm

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1969-1983

Congresswoman for NYs congressional district for 7 terms.

First woman to run for democratic presidential nomination.

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Brown v board.

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1954-63

5 different cases heard by the supreme court concerning segregation in public schools.

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Montgomery Bus boycott

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1954-63

African Americans in alarma refused to rude buses protesting segregated seating.

Dec 5 1955-> Dec 20 1956

Lasted 381 days.

First large scale demonstration against segregation.

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Little Rock nine

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1957.

Group of 9 African American students enrolled in little Rock central high school.

I'm tilly the students were prevented from entering the school until the intervention of president Eisenhower.

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Mlk & SCLC

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1957.

Sclc coordinated the action of local protest groups throughout the south under leadership of mlk.

Black churches were the backbone

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Student movement and freedom rides

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1961

Freedom riders rode interstate busses into the south to challenge segregation.

Student nonviolent coordinating committee.

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Birmingham Campaign/project c

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1963

Birmingham Campaign is project c.

Lunch counter sit in, marches on city hall, boycotts on downtown merchants.

Peaceful demonstrations were met with violent attacks (hoses and dogs)