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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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alliance of church-based African American organizations
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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led the new organization
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Nonviolent resistance
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required that protesters not resort to violence
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating 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 that hoped to launch new nonviolent protests against racial discrimination
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Freedom Riders
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bus trips through the south
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T. Eugene "Bull" Connor
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blamed the Freedom Riders
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Diane Nash
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SNCC leader
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James Meredith
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African American applicant
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Laurie Pritchett
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prepared for the demonstrations
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The 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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selected McComb, Mississippi, a town of some 120,0000 citizens
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Council of Federated Organizations
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coordinated voter registration drives
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24th Amendment
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banned the payment of poll taxes
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Freedom Summer
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recruited volunteers on university campuses
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Andrew Goodman
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a college student from New York, arrived in Mississippi on June 20
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James Chaney
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CORE worker
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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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formed its own delegation
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Michael Schwerner
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CORE worker
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Fannie Lou Hamer
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African American who had lost her job and house when she registered to vote
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Voting Rights Act
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put the entire registration process under federal control
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Nation of Islam
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attracted to the views of African American organizations
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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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charismatic young minister
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Stokely Carmichael
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African American victim of violence
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Bobby Seale
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worked with Huey Newton
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Huey Newton
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worked with Bobby Seale
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Black Panther Party
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party formed for African Americans
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Kerner Commission
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appointed to investigate the violence
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Stokley Carmichael
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African American victim of violence
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Poor People's Campaign
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Martin Luther King Jr. called for it and included a march on Washington DC
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Ralph Albernathy
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one of the SCLC leaders
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Busing
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sending children to schools outside of their neighborhoods
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Affirmative Action
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programs to compensate for previous discrimination
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University of California v. Bakke
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ruled that a white man has been unfairly denied admission to medical school on the basis of quotas
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Allan Bakke
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unfairly denied admission to the University of California
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Quotas
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system that reserved a fixed number of openings for certain groups of people
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Carl Stokes
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mayor of Cleveland
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National Black Political Convention
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2,700 delegates and another 4,000 people attended the convention
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Sit-ins
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demonstrators protest by sitting down in a location and refusing to leave
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Diane Nash
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SNCC Leader
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