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Rosa Parks

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refused to stand for a white man

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Stokely Carmichael

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Leader of the SNCC, wanted followers to march to finish what Meredith started

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Freedom Summer

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a project which would make Congress pass a voting rights act

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James Meredith

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an air force veteran who was granted to go to school bu the university refused, but was first AA student to attend the University of Mississippi

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MLK Jr.

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leader of the NAACP, from Atlanta GA, spoke his dream during the March on Washington

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Black Power

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call for black people to begin to define their own goals and to lead their own organizations

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Thurgood Marshall

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dedicated his life to stop racism

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affirmative action

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Programs which involve making efforts to hire or enroll groups that have suffered discrimination.

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

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same as the SCLC but for students in college and Universities

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Fannie Lou Hamer

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the voice of all AA's at the 1964 Democratic national Convention

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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which prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender

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Malcolm X

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one AA leader who urged their followers to take complete control of their communities

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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

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desegregation in schools

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Robert Moses

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He led the Freedom Summer project in Mississippi

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Civil Right Act of 1968

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ended discrimination in housing

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sit-in

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which AA protester sat down at segregated lunch counter and refused to leave unless served

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

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purpose to carry on nonviolent crusades against the evils of the second-class citizenship

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Freedom Riders

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They tested the Supreme Court decisions banning segregation on interstate bus routes and facilitates in bus terminals

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Selma to Montgomery March

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Televised scenes of violence during this event convinced Lyndon B. Johnson to ask Congress for swift passage of a voting rights act

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March on Washington

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Its goal was to persuade Congress to pass Kennedy's civil rights bill

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Nation of Islam

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Organization of Black Islams

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Black Panthers

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a political party to fight police brutality in the ghetto

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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The act eliminated the so-called literacy tests that had disqualified many voters

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de jure segregation

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segregation by law

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Kerner Commission

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By Pres Johnson, to study the causes of urban violence

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de facto segregation

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segregation by practice and custom

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