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Malcolm X
Was an Islamic preacher who increased his followers from 500 to 30,000 people. -
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Stokely Carmichael
Prime minister of the Black Panther party. Honorary leader of the SNCC. -
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Civil Rights
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
"Seperate but Equal" was the main quote that came from the case. But later on was overturned by the Brown vs. Board. -
De Jure Segregation
Is a law of segregation. It was ended by the 13th ammendment in 1865. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Segregation of white and Negro children in the public schools. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a year-long protest in Montgomery, Alabama, that encouraged 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 and where eliminated on all buses across the country. -
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Preached across the south about equal rights for whites and blacks. And also preached nonviolent acts. -
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
A regional organization and coordinate protest activities across the South. -
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 were the nine students who attended Little Rock Central High School. -
Freedom Riders
When seven blacks and six whites left Washington, D.C., on two public buses.. They intended to test the Supreme Court's ruling in Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional. -
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Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer was a highly publicized campaign in the Deep South to register blacks to vote during the summer of 1964. -
Selma March
Only the third march in March was succesful. The two previuos marches were stopped by police force and tear gas. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Outlawed the discrimination of voting. -
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Black Panthers
The Panthers practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs. The party was one of the first organizations in U.S. history to militantly struggle for ethnic minority and working class emancipation — a party whose agenda was the revolutionary establishment of real economic, social, and political equality across gender and color lines. -
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Kerner Commission
The commission investigated urban riots in the U.S. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
A sharpshooter shot him why he was standing on his balcony in Tennessee. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Enabled people in the protected classes to rent or own residential property in areas that were previously segregated. -
De Facto Segregation
Racial seperation that occured