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SCLC

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)

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Also a landmark decision by the Supreme Court in which they ruled racial segregation didn’t violate the U.S Constitution

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Rosa Parks

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A black women who decided not to get her seat taken by a white person on a bus. Arrested but starts a new movement called the bus boycott.

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James Meredith

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First African American to integrate Ole Miss 1962

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March on Washington

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Turning point in the civil rights movement, MLK Gave his speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial

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Freedom Summers

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A volunteer campaign in the U.S launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American votes as possible in Mississippi

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Sit Ins

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When few or many people sit down at a place to occupy an area for protest.

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Greensboro Four

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4 black young men who started the first sit in at Greensboro. Ezell Blair, David Richmond, Franklin McCain, and Joseph McNeil.

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Huey Newton

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Founder of the black panther party

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Nation of Islam

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A religious and political organization founded in the U.S by Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X

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Black Panther Party

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A black power organization founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale

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24th Amendment

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Ended the poll tax so you didn’t have to pay to vote which prevented many Africa Americans from voting

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James Earl Ray

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The suspected assassinator of MLK

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Thurgood Marshall

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American civil rights lawyer for the Supreme Court, won the brown vs. board case.

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SNCC

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: Locally based, student run organization led by ella baker

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Little Rock 9

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National Guard prevents nine students, including Elizabeth Eckford, from entering Little Rock Central High School under orders from Governor of Arkansas

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Jackie Robinson

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First black person to integrate from the Negro Leagues to the MLB

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Freedom Rides

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Civil rights activists who rode buses to show that segregated buses were unconstitutional

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Ella Baker

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Founder of the SCLC and SNCC

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Bobby Seale

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Founder of the Black Panther Party

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Martin Luther King

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Young Baptist minister, made first appearance speaking at bus boycott meeting, he gets his inspiration from God, Gandhi, and Randolph

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Victims of the freedom summer murders

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A. Goodman, M. Schwerner, and J Chaney

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Elijah Muhammad

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Led the Nation of Islam (NOI)

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Linda Brown

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3rd grade little girl who was one of the first to integrate schools and became the center of the Brown vs. Board of Education.

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Elizabeth Eckford

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One of the Little Rock 9, first to integrate schools

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Who were MLK’s inspirations

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God, Mahatma Gandhi, and Randolph

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NAACP

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded by W.E.B Du Bois

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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MLK gave his first appearance, desegregation activists boycotted the buses which plummeted the economy.

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Civil Disobedience

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Nonviolent resistance to authority

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Emmett Till

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Teenager who moved to Money, Mississippi and lives with Uncle Moes Wright to make money, Whistles at convenience store women, gets beat up and shot at night.

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Malcolm X

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American Muslim Minister who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement

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John Lewis

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Participated in sit ins and freedom rides, chairman for the SNCC

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Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing

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KKK bombing on oldest black church in Alabama

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C.O.R.E

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Congress of Racial Equality, group founded by interracial Chicago students using sit-ins and other forms of protests

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Geneva Accords

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. Meeting held in Geneva Switzerland
. USA, France, Soviet Union, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Britain
. Purpose was to divide Vietnam (17th Parallel)

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N. Vietnamese Soldiers

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Capital of North Vietnam

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Capital of South Vietnam

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What were Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam Called?

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Operation Rolling Thunder

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(Bombing Campaign) Intense Bombing on the Ho Chi Minh Trail

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Pro War & Anti War Symbols

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Hawks - Pro War
Dove - Anti War

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The Selective Service Act

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All men required to register for the draft at age 18

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Tet Offensive

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A series of surprise attacks on S. Vietnam by N. Vietnamese and Viet Congs on the Tet (Vietnamese New Years Holiday)

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Pinkville

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The Mai Lai Massacre when a town in Vietnam, U.S killed 500 innocent civilians under General Calley

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First American to orbit Earth?

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John Glenn

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The McCarren Act?

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Makes all communists in America to register.

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Who created Freedom Rides?

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The C.O.R.E (Congress of Racial Equality)

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Leader of South & North Korea

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South - Syngmann Rhee
North - Sung

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How did America end their participation in Vietnam?

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Paris Peace Accords

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Who did Pinkville?

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General Callie

51
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what is Napalm?

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A flammable jelly

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Project Mercury

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Try to get a man on the moon

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What is McCarthyism?

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The second red scare, persecution of Communists in America

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What was the counterculture movement?

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A movement that rejected traditional American values

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Leader of South Vietnam

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Ngo Din Diem

56
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Leader of North Vietnam

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Ho Chi Minh

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