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Civil Rights movemen
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Question | Answer |
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. | The civil rights movement lost it's strong leader |
March on Washington | The original goal of the 1963 was to persuade JFK to keep his promise to promote civil rights legislation and for jobs. "I have a dream" Speech |
Black Panthers | Militant group known for berets/gun-toting and "political power comes from the barrel of a gun". This group that was NOT dedicated to nonviolent resistence |
Montgomery Bus Boycott | protest segregation, ended when Supreme Court ruled that segregation on buses was unconstitutional |
Malcom X | was different than leader Martin Luther King in that he believed in violent confrontations |
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 | end of literacy tests in voter registration |
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) | Civil Rights organization headed by Martin Luther King Jr, that staged peaceful demonstrations on buses and in other public facilities to publicize and protest segregation |
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) pronounced Snick for short | One strategy used by this Civil Rights leadership group was "jail not bail" in order to place economic burden on the white community |
In the 1960's Black Muslims | group that preached a message of black seperatism |
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) | conducted workshops on methods of non-violent protest |
Sit-ins Movement | Non-violent students who used sit-ins as a form of protest, provoked hostile reactions of those who opposed them |
Philosophies MLK Jr vs Malcom X | MLK Jr -Passive, non-violent (turn the other cheek) people fundamentally the same Malcolm X- Self-Defense (eye for an eye) Black Nationalism |