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| 790994286 | CORE | Committee Of Racial Equality; an organization dedicated to the practice of nonviolent process | |
| 790994287 | Robinson | American baseball player; he was the first black player in the major leagues | |
| 790994288 | Legal rights, nonviolent protests, establishing organizations to expand civil rights | what were some of the methods which civil rights were expanded in the years before 1954? | |
| 790994289 | Brown vs. BOE | Linda Brown, an African American third grader, lived blocks away from a white school but walked 5 blocks and took a bus for two miles to get to her school NAACP recruited Brown's parents to challenge segregation of schools in supreme court | |
| 790994290 | Segregation had harmed the self-image of young children | What kinds of issues faced the Supreme Court in making its Brown decision? | |
| 790994291 | Little rock nine | nine African American students who first integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957 | |
| 790994292 | SCLC | Southern Christian Leadership Conference; a group formed in Georgia in 1957 to organize civil rights protest activities | |
| 790994293 | Farmer | American civil rights leader and founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). He believed in the practice of nonviolence as a means of achieving his organizations' goals | |
| 790994294 | Sit ins | African Americans were denied service so they didn't move from their seats | |
| 790994295 | SNCC | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; student civil rights organization in the 1960s | |
| 790994296 | Meredith | Civil rights activist who entered the University of Mississippi after being denied admission because of his race. His entrance led to violent riots on the school's campus | |
| 790994297 | Vivian Malone and Jimmy Hood | Governor George Wallace physically blocked this two from enrolling into University of Alabama; eventually stepped aside | |
| 790994298 | Both nonviolent and had people arrested | How were the Albany and Birmingham Campaigns alike? | |
| 790994299 | Letter from Birmingham Jail | a letter rejecting charges that a group of white clergy wrote in an ad in a newspaper | |
| 790994300 | March on Washington | a march for jobs and freedom largest civil rights demonstration MLK delivered "I Have A Dream" speech | |
| 790994301 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 | act signed into law on July 2, 1964 that banned discrimination in employment and in public accommodations | |
| 790994302 | Freedom Riders | activists who challenged segregation in bus terminals in the south in 1961 | |
| 790994303 | VEP | Voter Education Project: group founded in 1962 to register souther African Americans to vote | |
| 790994304 | 24th Amendment | banned states from taxing citizens to vote in elections banned poll taxes | |
| 790994305 | Freedom Summer | a volunteer project in which college students spent their summer vacation in Mississippi, registering African Americans to vote | |
| 790994306 | June 20, 1964 | Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner were all volunteers arrested and later killed for trying to help African Americans (date) | |
| 790994307 | MFDP | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; a political party created in 1964 with the purpose of winning seats at the 1964 Democratic National Convention | |
| 790994308 | Hamer | American civil rights activist, she was a prominent leader of the Mississippi Democratic Party | |
| 790994309 | Voting Rights Act of 1965 | civil rights law that banned literacy tests and other practices that discouraged blacks from voting | |
| 790994310 | Selma Campaign | James Perkins became the first African American mayor of Selma represented end of one of the bloodiest marches that took place 35 years ago | |
| 790994311 | Reynolds v. Sims | about three-fourths of Alabama lived in cities but rural voters still controlled both houses of the legislature. A group of Birmingham citizens sued | |
| 790994312 | de jure segregation | segregation by law | |
| 790994313 | de facto segregation | segregation that exists through custom and practice rather than by law | |
| 790994314 | Stokely Carmichael | civil rights activist in the United States; he was an important leader of the black nationalism movement in the 1960s | |
| 790994315 | Black Power | an African American social movement in the late 1960s that advocated unity and self-reliance to address injustice | |
| 790994316 | Black Panther Party | a group formed in 1966, inspired by the idea of Black Power, that provided aid to black neighborhoods; often thought of as radical or violent | |
| 790994317 | Malcolm X | well-known supporter of the nation of islam and black leader; he spoke in support of black separatism, black pride, and the use of violence for self protection "by any means necessary" | |
| 790994318 | Resurrection City | African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, and whites occupied national mall Protesting their poverty | |
| 790994319 | Poor People's Campaign | an expansion of the civil rights movement that tried to raise awareness about poverty among people of all races | |
| 790994320 | Abernathy | MLK's successor as head of the SCLC, he led the Poor People's Campaign after King's death | |
| 790994321 | Civil Rights Act of 1968 | law that banned discrimination in the sale or rental of housing Fair Housing Act | |
| 790994322 | affirmative action | programs that gave preference to minorities and women in hiring and admissions |
