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Malcolm X
He became one of the Nation's leaders and chief spokesmen. For nearly a dozen years, he was the public face of the Nation of Islam. -
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Stokely Carmichael
First leader of SNCC, Honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party. -
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Civil Rights
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De jure Segregation
De jure segregation means racial separation forced by specific laws. Was ended by the 13th Amendment in 1865. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
The seperate but equal, Plessy vs. Ferguson Acts, were repealed in 1954 by Brown vs. The Board of Education. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students denied black children equal educational opportunities. The decision overturned earlier rulings going back to Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. -
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Preached across the south for racial equality between blacks and whites through Noviolence. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott a year-long protest in Montgomery, Alabama, that galvanized the American Civil Rights Movement and led to a 1956 decision by the Supreme Court of the United States declaring segregated seating on buses unconstitutional. -
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Is an American civil rights organization. SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The SCLC had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Little Rock Nine
Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Dr. Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls Lanier, Minnijean Brown Trickey, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed-Wair, Melba Pattillo Beals attended little rock central high school. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were Civil Rights activists who rode on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia. -
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Freedom Summer
Was a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters. -
Selma March
Only the third march, which began on March 21 and lasted five days, made it to Montgomery, 54 miles (87 km) away. This day will forever be known as Bloody Sunday, as policed forced the peaceful marchers to turn around and head back to Selma, they used tear gas and clubs to harm these peace marchers -
Voting Act of 1965
outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the United States. -
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Black Panther
Was an African-American revolutionary organization established to promote Black Power, and by extension self-defense for blacks. -
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Kerner Commission
The Commission's final report, the Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders or Kerner Report was released on February 29, 1968 after seven months of investigation. The report became an instant best-seller, and over two million Americans bought copies of the 426-page document. Its finding was that the riots resulted from black frustration at lack of economic opportunity. -
MLK assassination
At 6:01 p.m. a shooter shot Martin Luther King in the Neck/lower jaw region while he was standing on his balcony at his hotel. -
Civil rights act of 1968
The Fair Housing Act of 1968 imposed a comprehensive solution to the problem of unlawful discrimination in housing based on race, color, sex, national origin, or religion enabling persons in the protected classes to rent or own residential property in areas that were previously segregated. -
De Facto Segregation
de facto segregation refers to a homogenous racial grouping, i.e., a group of individuals dominated by one particular race.