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| SCLC | Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Civil Rights group created by King and other ministers
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| Freedom Rides | designed to force integration of interstate busing
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| Malcolm X | significant leader of the Nation of Islam who was assassinated in 1965
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| 15th Amendment | granted black men the right to vote, but was denied to many due to discriminatory practices in the South
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| Little Rock Nine | nickname of the group of students who integrated Central High School
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| Civil disobedience | breaking a law that you feel is unjust
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| Thurgood Marshall | chief lawyer for the NAACP who became the first African American Supreme Court Justice
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| Emmett Till | young boy from Chicago who was murdered in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman
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| James Meredith | first to integrate Ole Miss
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| SNCC | Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee - youth led Civil Rights group
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| freedom summer | designed to get blacks registered and voting
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| MLK | Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights leader who believed in nonviolent protests
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| Great Migration | movement of many blacks from the south to the north in the hopes of better jobs and less racism
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| Rosa Parks | her refusal to give her seat up led to a year long bus boycott
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| Children's Campaign | youth took to the streets of Birmingham to protest racism, many were arrested and others had fire hoses turned on them
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| John Lewis | one of the youth leaders of SNCC who today is a congressman from Georgia
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| March on Washington | 250,000 + people attended to influence Civil Rights Legislation, it was at this event that King delivered his famous "I have a Dream" speech
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| Ruby Bridges | first to integrate elementary school in New Orleans
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| Plessy v Ferguson | Supreme Court case that ruled separate but equal was legal
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| Brown v Board of Educ | Supreme Court case that ruled segregation has no place in public education
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| Jackie Robinson | broke the color barrier in baseball
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| Eugene Connor | racist police chief of Birmingham, Alabama
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| Voting Rights Act | 1965 provided federal power to fight discrimination in registration and election procedures
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| Jim Crow Law | segregation laws
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| Bloody Sunday | marchers were beaten with billy clubs and tear gas as they attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery
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| Fannie Lou Hamer | arrested and beaten for attempting to register to vote, later became a leader in the voting rights campaign
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