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- SNCC
- hoped to harnass the energy of these students protests
- Civil Rights act of 1957
- 1st civil rights law since reconstruction
- Boycott
- when a group of people decide not to do something to make a point
- voting rights act 1965
- eliminated the literary tests that had disqualified many voters
- civil rights act in 1964
- johnson signed, which prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, natural origin, and gender
- selma to montgomery 1st march
- March 7 1965, 600 protestors marched
- malcolm x
- leader of an african american group
- Lyndon Johnson
- John F. Kennedys successor, became president after kennedy was shot
- stokely carmichael
- leader of SNCC decided to lead their followers in a march
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- refused to ride a bus for 381 days
- Central HS Little Rock
- 9 AA students volunteered to integrate this school
- schwerner goodman and chaney
- civil rights activists, murdered by local police
- Ella Baker
- first director SCLC and the granddaughter of slaves
- James Merideth
- Airforce Veteran, won a federal court case that allowed him to enroll in the all white university of Mississippi
- Jim Clark
- sheriff of selma, alabama and reacted violently to the protestors
- CORE
- had staged he first sit-ins
- civil rights act of 1968
- ended discrimination in housing
- NAACP
- an organization founded to promise full racial equality
- sweat vs painter
- state law schools must admit black applicants even if seperate black schools exist
- charles houston
- brilliant howard university law professor who served as chief legal council of NAACP
- defacto segregation
- segregation that exists by practice and custom
- Plessy vs ferguson
- 1896, the supreme court ruled that this seperate but equal law didn't violate the 14th amendment
- ballots or bullets
- if they wouldnt let the use the ballots then they will have to use the bullets
- Thurgood Marshall
- dedicated life to fighting racism
- Jim Crow laws
- laws that enacted by southern state and local governments to serperate whites and blacks
- march on washington
- august 28, 1963 more then 250000 people marched about civil rights acts
- Kerner commission
- johnson appointed to study the causes of urban violence
- Earl Warren
- chief justice in supreme court
- freedom riders
- hoped to provoke a violent reaction that would convince the kennedy administration to enforce the law
- James Farmer
- CORE director, announced that a group of SNCC volunteers in Nashville were to pick up where the others left off
- affirmative action
- involves making special efforts to hire or enroll groups that have suffered discriminations
- black power
- call for black people to begin to define their own goals and lead organizations
- Orval Fabus
- governor of arkansas
- George Wallace
- govenor of alabama
- Morgan vs Virginia
- 1946, supreme court declared unconstitutional those state laws mandating segregated seating on interstate buses
- rosa parks
- a seamstress and an NAACP officer
- Sit-Ins
- African American protesters sat down at segregated lunch counters and didnt leave until served
- 16th street baptist church
- bombed and killed 4 little girls
- Robert Moses
- former NYC school teacher who quit his job to join SNCC and lead voter project in Mississippi
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- to carry on nonviolent crusades against the evils of 2nd class citizenship
- April 4th 1968
- martin luther king jr. addressed a crowd in memphis and was shot
- 2nd march
- march 21st 1965, 3000 protestors marched with federal protection and number grew to over 25000
- Frannie Lou Hammer
- the daughter of Mississippi sharecroppers
- Jo Ann Robinson
- NAACP leader, helped suggest a boycott
- Diane Nash
- leader in SNCC called james farmer to resume the freedom rides
- de jure segregation
- segregation by law
- black panthers
- political party founded by Nuey Newton and bobby seal to fight police brutality in the ghetto
- Medgar Evers
- NAACP field secretary and world war 2 veteran was shot and killed
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- ordained minister since 1948; murdered
- Shirley Chrisholm
- African american woman who emplified the advances won in the civil rights movement
- Mecca
- in saudi arabia; orthodox islam preached racial equalities
- Huey Newton and Bobby seal
- founded the black panthers
- nation of islam
- or the black muslims; elijah muhammad was the leader
- Eugene Bull Conner
- Police commisioner him and men arrested 959 African Americans marching in Birmingham
- jimmy lee jackson
- demonstrator who was shot and killed
- brown vs board of education
- brown charged school of violation lyndas rights by denying admission to a white school
- Robert Kennedy
- Us Attorney general