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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Felt sit-ins gave students the power to change things | Jesse Jackson |
| Executive director of SCLC, urged students to create their own organization to promote the cause | Ella baker |
| Student organization created to organize protests | SNCC |
| Chosen to lead SNCC | Marion Barry |
| Believed rural areas needed help as well as urban areas | Robert Moses |
| Arrested for encouraging African Americans to vote, helped organize Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, challenged the legality o segregated Democratic National Convention | Fannie Lou Hamer |
| Teams that traveled to the South to test integration of interstate bus terminals, met with violence in several cities in Alabama, JFK intervenes to achieve a peaceful resolution in Mississippi | Freedom Riders |
| Created to stop discriminatory hiring practices in the federal government | Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity |
| Attorney General, encouraged the Voter Education project, SNCC volunteers would register African American voters in South, some met with violence | Robert Kennedy |
| First black graduate of the University of Mississippi, JFK sends federal marshals to escort to class | James Meredith |
| MLK organized marches to draw attention to segregation, arrested, writes Letters from Birmingham Jail, uses students as protesters, police commissioner use force to stop protests | Birmingham, AL |
| Governor of Alabama, blocks two African American students from registering at the University of Alabama | George Wallace |
| Peaceful protest in Washington D.C. in a show of support for civil rights legislation, I Have a Dream Speech | March on Washington |
| Debating or talking a bill to death in the Senate | Filibuster |
| Ending debate in the Senate with a 2/3rds vote | cloture |
| Ends segregation in all public places, federal government to bring lawsuits to end school segregation, requires employers to end discrimination in the workplace | Civil Rights Act 1964 |
| Created to investigate claims of discrimination in the work force | Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
| Makes poll taxes illegal, suspends the use of literacy tests as a requirement for voting | Twenty-fourth amendment |
| City chosen to protest the lack of voting rights, majority of the population is African American only 3% are registered voters, wants to march to Montgomery, governor prohibits, marchers are forced to turn around, sheriff orders marchers stopped | Selma, AL |
| Allowed the Attorney General to send federal examiners into states to register eligible voters | Voting Rights Act 1965 |
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