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- Malcolm X
- famous black leader of the Nation of Islam who was gunned down by the member of Nation of Islam
- Great Society
- program started by President Lyndon Johnson that provided help for the poor , the elderly and women and also promoted education and outlawed discrimination(included Medicare and Medicaid)
- Freedom Rides
- protest against segregation on interstate busing in the South
- CORE
- Congress of Racial of Equality, a group that planned the Freedom Rides to desegregate interstate buses
- Birmingham, Alabama
- place where SCLC recruited children for marches knowing thaqt there would be violence against the blacks and it would all be shown on TV for Americans to see
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- this act banned segregation in public places and created the Equal Opportunity Commission
- November 22, 1963
- President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas
- Freedom Summer
- in 1964 , the SNCC organized a voter registration drive
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- law banned literacy tests and other laws that kept African Americans from registering to vote
- March on Washington
- a hkuge civil rights demonstratin in DC where King made the "Ihad a dream" speech
- Stokely Carmichael
- new leader of SNCC called for "black power"
- 1960 presidential election
- John Kennedy(Democrat runs agains Vice President Nixon (Republican