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Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
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a 1954 case in which the supreme court ruled that "seperate but equal" education for black and white students was unconstituional. [reversed the plessy decision] same amendment.
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Little Rock Nine
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nine a-a students who had voluntered to intergrate little rocks "white" central high school.
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Southern Christian Leadership conference
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an organization formed in 1957 by MLK Jr. and toher leaders to work for civil rights through nonviolent means
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sit-ins
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a form of demonstration used by a-a's to protest discrimination, in which the protesters sit donw in a segregated business and refuse to leave until they were served.
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Freedom Riders
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one of the cicil rights activists who rode buses through the south in the early 1960's to challenge segregation.
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Civil rights act of 1964
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a law that banned discrimintaion on the basis of race, national origin, or relighion in public places and most owrk places propsed by kennedy, signed by johnson
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Voting Rights act of 1965
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a law that made it easier for a-a's to register to vote by eliminating discriminatory literacy tests and authorizing federal examiners to oenroll voters denied at a local level.
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Nation of Islam
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a religious group, populary known as the black muslum, founded by Elijah Muhammad to promote black separatism and the islmic religion
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Famous Leader of the Nation of Islam
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Malcom X.
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Black Power
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a slogan used by Stokely Carmicheal in the 1960's that encouraged Af-Am pride and political and social leadership
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Black Panthers
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militaint Af"Am polititical organiation formed in 1966 by Huey Newtom and Bobby Seale to fight police brutality and to provided services in the ghetto
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
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a law that banned discrimation in housing
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Feminism
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the belief that women should have economic, political, and social equality for men
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National Organization of women
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founded in 1966 to pursue feminist goals, such as a better childcare facilities, improved educational oppurtunites and to end to job discrimnation
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counterculture
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the culture of the young people who rejected mainstream American society in the 1960's seeking to create and alternative society based on peace, love, nad indiviual freedom
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Beatles
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a british band that had an enormus influence on popular music in the 1960's
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Woodstock
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a free music festival that attracted more than 400,000 young people to a farm in upstate New York in August 1969.
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