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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bans the poll tax | 24th Amendment |
| Prejudice or discrimination toward someone because of race | racism |
| Watts, neighborhood in Los Angeles that suffered six days of violence in 1965, Detroit saw worst violence, US Army and tanks are sent in to stop, usually start with an insignificant event, claims of brutality, acts of violence, much property destroyed | riots |
| Investigated the causes of urban violence, found extremists on both sides of the issue, a divide was developing between the races, suggested creating more jobs and more housing, recommendation not endorsed | Kerner Commission |
| Attempt to draw attention to housing conditions of African Americans, MLK moves into apartment in slums of Chicago, marches to protest lack of open housing | Chicago Movement |
| Mayor of Chicago, had police protect protesters, met with MLK, proposed program to clean up slums | Richard Daley |
| Meant many things to different people, some believed self-defense and violence, others want to control social, economic, and political direction, stressed pride in culture, popular with younger leaders | Black Power |
| Believed in political power, helped candidates run for local offices in Alabama | Stokely Carmichael |
| Incorporating different racial or cultural groups into society | cultural assimilation |
| A symbol of black power, member of the Nation of Islam, called for the separation of the races, pilgrimage to Mecca, rejects separation, assassinated | Malcolm X |
| Known as the Black Muslims, called for separation of the races members assassinate Malcolm X | Nation of Islam |
| Militant group that calls for black power, black nationalism, economic self-sufficiency, support revolution to gain equality | Black Panthers |
| Wrote Soul on Ice, leader of the Black Panthers | Eldridge Cleaver |
| MLK in Memphis, TN, helping organize sanitation workers, shot by James Earl Ray | April 4, 1968 |
| Succeeds MLK, leader of the Poor People’s Campaign | Ralph Abernathy |
| Fair housing provision, outlawed discrimination in housing sales and rentals | Civil Rights Act 1968 |
| Ends with MLK assassination, second period in history of US with strides are made towards equality | Second Reconstruction |
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