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Civil Rights

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Martin Luther King Jr. Minister whose vision and non-violent message helped the civil rights movement transform American society
Fannie Lou Hamer Helped organize Mississippi freedom democrat party
Thurgood Marshall NAACP chief conceal and first African American to serve in Supreme Court
Robert Moses Urged the NAACP to start helping southern African Americans to register to vote
Malcolm X Symbol of black power movement. Opposite of MLK in protests
Rosa Parks Wouldn't give up her seat on the bus to a white man
Stokely Carmicheal Leader of the SNCC who believed in black power
Huey P. Newton Organized the black panthers
Linda Brown Denied admission to her neighborhood school due to her skin color
Ella Baker Executive director of the SCLC
Southern Manifesto Urged white southerners to defy the supreme court
CORE Members were freedom riders and did sit-ins (peaceful protests)
Little Rock Arkansas Governor tried to prevent African Americans from entering the white schools by deploying the national guard
President Johnson’s advantage over Kennedy He had knowledge of congress because he served for 20 years
Plessy V. Ferguson Separate but equal
Nonviolent Passive resistance Martin Luther King
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 Try to help African Americans right to vote (was not very strong)
Robert Kennedy Secretary of State when his brother was president. Help African Americans to register to vote by bringing lawsuits throughout the south.
Selma Alabama MLK lead protest march here because majority of population was African American
What did Kennedy mean when he said that African Americans were not fully free? As long as segregation and voter discrimination exists, African Americans in the United States are not truly free.
Justice too long delayed is justice denied. What does it mean? Waiting is no longer an option. People dying, police brutality, and Jim Crow laws deny African Americans their basic rights. Encouraged their people to protest. Although they were breaking the law, it was a higher moral law they sought after.
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