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40 Cards in this Set
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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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Led the new organization
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Nonviolent resistance
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Required that protestors not resort to violence, even when others attacked them
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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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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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The success of the student sit-ins inspire this
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Freedom Riders
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Took bus trips through the South
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T. Eugene and Connor
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Blamed the freedom riders for the violence
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Diane Nash
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SNCC leader
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James Meredith
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An African American applicant
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Medgar Evers
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Was killed by a white assassin
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Laurie Pritchett
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Was prepared for the demonstrations
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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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Selected McComb, Mississippi, a town of some 12,000 citizens
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Council of Federated Organizations
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To coordinate voter registration drives
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Twenty-fourth Amendment
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Which banned the payment of pol taxes as a condition for voting in federal elections
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Freedom Summer
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Mose's plan
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Andrew Goodman
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A college student from New York
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James Chaney and Michael Schwerner
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They just disappeared
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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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COFO helped create this
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Fannie Lou Hamer
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An African American who had lost her job and her 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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James Farmer
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1962 CORE director
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Nation of Islam
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People who were attracted to the views of African American organizations
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Elijah Muhammad
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Became it's leader
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Malcolm X
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A charismatic young minister
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Stokely Carmicheal
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SNCC
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Black Power
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Movement called for black seperatism
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Bobby Seale worked with Huey Newton
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At an antpoverty center in Oakland, California
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Black Panther Party
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The two created a political organization
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Kerner Commission
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Investigate the violence
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Poor People's Campaign
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That would include a march on Washington, D.C., to protest what he saw as a misuse of government spending
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Ralph Abernathy
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Told the marchers on their way to Capitol Hill
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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. Blake
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Ruled that a white man
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Allan Bakke
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Had been unfairly denied admission to medical school on the basis
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Quotas
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Reserved a fixed number of openings for certain groups of people
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Carl Stokes
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Was elected major U.S. City
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National Black Political Convention
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Some 2,700 delegates and another 4,000 people attended the convention
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