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The Triumphs of a Crusade Flashcards

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What were the freedom rideers

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Activists who used a bust test to challenge interstate bus segregation

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What did teh riders hope for

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A violent reaction that would convince the Kennedy administration to act

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What happened at Alabama:

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White racists got on Bus One carrying chains, brass knuckles and pistols. They brutally built African American riders and white activists who tried to intervene

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In Anniston

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200 whites attacked bus 2. They exploded the bus.

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What the bus companies refuse to do

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Carry the CORE further ( the Congress of Racial Equality was one that started the whole thing)

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The CORE director James Farmar announced

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That a group of SNCC volunteers were in Nashville

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Where did the new Band of Freedom Riders go

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They went to Birmingham and were beaten up and taken back

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When teh bus driver refused to transport them, what did the new band have to do

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They had to wait in a white only room

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Who had to intervene

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RFK

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Although the Alabama officials promised that the riders would be protected, in Montgomery Alabama

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A mob came

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President Kennedy arranged to

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Send 400 U.S. Marshalls to help them with their journey to Jackson

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In September what did the ICC do?

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They banned segregation in travel facilities

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In Sept 1962, Air Force vet_________ won a case that ____________

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James Meridith, enrolled in teh University of Mississippi

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When Merideth arrived, what happened

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Ross Barnett refused to let him register as a student

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What did the governor say (Barnett)

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That they would never surrender and let meridith in

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On Sept 30th what happened at Ole miss

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Riots broke out and t2 people died. 200 arrests and it was in 15 hours

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What did Birmingham have

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A reputation for racial violence and total segregation

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Reverend Fred Shuttleworth the head of the Alabama Christian movement for Human Rights and Secretary of SCLC decided what

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That Birminham had to be fixed and he invited the SCLC and MLK to help

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On April 3, 1963

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King flew into teh city to: Hold a meetin gwith members of the African American community where he stated that it would be hard and dangerous

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After days of demonstrations, when was king and the others arrested

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They were arrested on 4/2

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What is a famous document

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Birmingham Jail

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on 4/20, what did king Begin,

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He started planning more demonstrations

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On 5/2 what happened in Birmingham

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More then 1,000 marched into Birmingham. Bull Conner arrested 959 of them

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5/3 what happened

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A childrens crusade came and dogs and hoses were used. Nations watched

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What was the type of boycott and outcome in Birminghma

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Protests, economic boycott: Birmingham officials ended segregation

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On June 11, 1963 President knenedy sent troops to force

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Alabama governor George Wallace to honor a court order desegregating the University of Alabama

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What did Kennedy demand

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That congress pass a civil rights bill

28
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Medgar Evers was

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An Naacp field secretary who was murdered. The murderer was released

29
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The civil rights bill that Kennedy sent to congress

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Guarenteed Equal access to public accomodations

30
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Civil Rights Act of 1957

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Established federal commission on civil rights

Established a civil rights division in the Justice Department to enforce civil Rights laws

Enlarged federal power to protect voting rights

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Civil Rights act of 1964

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Banned most discrimination in employment and in public accomodations

Enlarged federal power to protect voting rights and speed up school desegregation,

Established Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to ensure fair treatment in Employment

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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Eliminated Voter literacy tests

Enabled federal exameners to register voters

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Civil Rights Act of 1968

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Prohibited Discrimination in the sale or rental of most housing

Strengthned antilynching

Made it a crimeL To harm civil rights workers

34
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To persuade Congress to pass the Civil Rights bill, what did AA s do

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A Phillip Randolph summoned a march to D.C.

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On August 28, 1963 what happened

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More then 25,000 people including 75,000 whites came to the capital

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Who spoke i DC

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martain Luther king. He gave his “ I Have A Dream Speech”

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What happened approximately two weeks after King’s Speech

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4 Birmingham girls wer ekilled with a bomb that was thrown into a church

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July 24th, 1964 what did LBJ sign

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 that prohibited dscrimination bause of race, relifion, national origin, and gender. Also, in Public Acconodations

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Freedom Summer

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The CORE and SNCC in 1964 began registering many African Americans to vote. They wanted to influence Congress

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What did Civil Rights groups do

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Recruited college students and trained them in nonviolent segregation

41
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In June of 1964, what did the ku Klux Klan do?

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they killed 3 workers

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What party did SNCC organize

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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

43
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Fanny Lou Hamer

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Daugher of mississippi Sharecroppers. Gave a speech of how she tried to vote- At the Democratic naitonal Convention

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In Response to Hamers speech, what happened

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the MFDP gained support

45
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What did Johnson fear

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That he would loose Southern white Democratic votes. The democrates gave only two seats to the MFDP in Mississippi and they banned segregation at the convention

46
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At the start of 1965, what happened

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The SCLC conducted a major voting rights campaign in Selma Alabama. SNCC had been registering voters there for some time

47
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How many African Americans were arrested in selma

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2000

48
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July 26th, 1948

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Truman signs executive order desegregating military

49
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Demonstrator named Jimmy Lee Jackson is killed, so MLK responds by organizing (In Selma)

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MLK responded by organizng a 50 mile protest from Selma to Montgomery

50
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On the night of march 7th, 1956

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Mayham broke out and the nation watched violence

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On march 21, 1956

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3000 marchers set out for Montgomery with federal protection. it grew to 25,000

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Voting Rights Act of 1965 did what

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eliminated literacy tests. It stated that federal examiners could put voters on the list

53
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The percentage of southern voters

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tripled

54
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By 1965, what happened to Civil Rights Groups?

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They began to drift Apart, and soon turned their attention to the north

55
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Defacto Segregation

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