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Brown v Board

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Linda Brown from Kansas, attorney is Thurgood Marshall. Ended segregation in public schools, overturned Plessy case

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Segregation

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Separating people by their race

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SCLC

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Southern Christian leadership conference. Taught AA nonviolent methods for pursuing equal rights

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Plessy vs Ferguson

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Upheld the constitutionality of segregating public facilities under the doctrine of separate but equal (1896)

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Rosa Parks

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Refused to give up seat in section of the bus reserved for whites. Arrested and fined $10

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James Meredith

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First AA to integrate Ole Miss 1962

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March on Washington

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August 1963 200,000 people “marched” to capital to rally support for Civil Rights Bill

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Freedom Summer

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1964, help AA register to vote

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Sit ins

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Huey Newton

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Nation of Islam

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Discrimination

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Treating people differently based on race or other characteristics

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Bias

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Favoring

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Black Panther Party

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Jimmy Jackson

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James Earl Ray

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Thurgood Marshall

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Intergration

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SNCC

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Student nonviolent coordinating committee. Locally based, student run civil rights organization

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Little Rock Nine

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A. Philip Randolph

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Pressured FDR into banning discrimination in the military, pressured Truman into desegregating military

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Ross Barnett

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Jackie Robinson

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Freedom rides

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Activists who rode buses into the south to test the “de-segregation” of bus facilities. James Farmer

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Ella Baker

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Founded SNCC

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Bobby Seale

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1 leader of black panther party, and was in Afro American association

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Black Panthers

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US AA militant group against urban police. Founded in 1966 in Oakland CA. Thought violent revolution was the only way to freedom

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Stereotype

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Prejudice

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Irrational hatred of other groups

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MLK

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Young baptist minister, protested for civil rights, first appearance speaking at bus boycott meeting

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A. Goodman

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Civil Rights

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Protections/privileges given to citizens by law or intolerance

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Linda Brown

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Topeka Kansas, Brown vs Board in Earl Warren court

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De jure

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Segregation by law

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CORE

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Congress of Racial equality. “Making equality a reality for all”

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Elizabeth Eckford

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Mahatma Gandhi

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Employed nonviolent means to lead India into independence

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Medgar Evers

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Ruby Bridges

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One of 6 chosen to integrate elementary schools, New Orleans 1960

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Stokely Carmichael

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Coined the term “black power”

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Black Power

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Racial pride, rejected by NAACP. Celebrated African Heritage

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Bobby Kennedy

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“Bull” Eugene Connor

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Birmingham police chief, racist

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Civil rights act (1964)

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Landmark legislation that banned discrimination based. On race color, gender, or national origin

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We shall overcome

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M. Schwerner

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J. Chaney

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NAACP

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National association for the advancement of colored people. (1909 founded)

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De Facto

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Segregation

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Orval Faubus

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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African Americans unite in their refusal to use the city’s buses

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Civil Disobedience

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Nonviolent resistance to authority

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Emmett Till

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Vacation with relatives, whistled at white woman, kidnapped, beat and shot by 2 white mean that weren’t charged

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Voting Rights Act

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Tommie Smith and John Carlos

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Gave the Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics. They were suspended by the US team and banned from Olympic village.

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Malcom X

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In prison at 20, leader in Nation of Islam,equality by any means necessary (violence) assassinated by rival group of black Muslims in 1965

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Selma

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John Lewis

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Racism

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An attitude of superiority toward a person of a different race, and most often color

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James Farmer

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Bombing 16th street church

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Elijah Muhammad

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“Blacks were they first people to rule the world and whites tricked them out of power” leader of religious/political group, Nation of Islam. Convert to Islam to protect heritage

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George Wallace

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Jan 1963 Governor of Alabama “Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!

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