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nonviolent resistance
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Required that protests not resort to violence, even when others attacked them.
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sit-ins
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Demonstrators would protest by sitting down in a location and refusing to leave.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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An alliance of church-based African American organizations dedicated to ending discrimination.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Leader of the SCLC
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Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee
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A loose association of student activists from throughout the South.
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Congress of Racial Equality
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Northern-based civil rights group hoped to launch new nonviolent protests against racial discrimination.
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Freedom Riders
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Civil Rights activists who rode on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia
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T. Eugene Connor
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Birmingham's sity commissioner of public safety that blamed the Freedom Riders for the violence when a Freedom Rider was beaten so badly that he suffered permanent brain damage.
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Diane Nash
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SNCC leader
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James Meredith
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First black man to go to college/University of Mississippi
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Medgar Evers
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NAACP field secretary that was killed by a white assassin. Myrlie Ever's husband.
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Laurie Pritchett
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Albany, Georgia Police Chief that used the method "nonviolence with nonviolence"
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Banned discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Robert Moses
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Registered 6 black voters and was jailed, beaten, and chased by a mob.
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Council of Federated Organizations
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Coordinated voter registration drives
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Twenty-fourth Amendment
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Banned the payment of poll taxes as a condition for voting in federal elections.
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Freedom Summer
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Plan that recruited volunteers and offered legal and medical assistance to the civil rights workers.
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Andrew Goodman
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White man that was murdered
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James Chaney
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White man that was murdered
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Michael Schwerner
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White man that was murdered
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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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Group that sent its own delegates to the Democratic National Convention to protest discrimination against black voters in Mississippi.
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Fannie Lou Hamer
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An African American who had lost her job and her jouse when she registered to vote
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Voting Rights Act
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Law that put voter registration under federal government control.
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James Farmer
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CORE director
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Nation of Islam
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Organization based on the Islamic religion founded by prophet Muhammad.
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Elijah Muhammad
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Leader of the Nation of Islam
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Malcolm X
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A charismatic young Nation of Islam minister.
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Stokely Carmichael
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Part of the SNCC. "What you want is the nation to be upset when anybody is killed... It's almost like, for this to be recognized, a white person must be killed. Well, what does that say?"
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Black Power
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Movement that called for black separatism. Emphasized racial pride.
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Bobby SEale
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Created the political organization called the Black Panther Party.
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Huey Newton
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Created the political organization called the Black Panther Party.
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Black Pantehr Party
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Political organization formed in the 1960s that called for empowerment of and defense for African Americans.
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Kerner Commission
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Federal commission that investigated the 1960s riots and blamed them on white racism.
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Poor People's Campaign
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s proposed movement to protest the believed misuse of government spending away from antipoverty programs.
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busing
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Sending children to schools outside of their neighborhoods, usually to promote integration.
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affirmative action
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Practice by some government agencies, businesses, and schools of giving preference to ethnic minorities and women in admissions and hiring.
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quotas
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System of reserving a fixed number of openings in schools or jobs for certain groups of people.
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Ralph Abernathy
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Told marchers on their way to Capitol Hill after Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, "We have business on the road to freedom.... We must prove to white America that you can kill the leader but you cannot kill the dream."
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University of California v. Bakke
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Supreme Court decision that established that while some forms of affirmative action were legal, quota systems were not.
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Allan Bakke
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A white man that in the case of University of California v. Bakke, was ruled having been unfairly denied admission to medical school on the basis of quotas.
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Carle Stokes
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Mayor of Cleveland. First African American to be elected mayor of a major U.S. city.
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National Black Political Convention
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Meeting of civil rights activists to ensure that African Americans would continue to gain political influence.
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