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Civil Rights Terms

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Baker v. Carr (1962)   show
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show stressed program of black pride, economic self-sufficiency, and armed resistance to white oppression  
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show militant factions of civil rights group; stressed forceful resistance to white oppression and advocated separation from white society  
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show reversed the "separate but equal" doctrine from plessy vs. ferguson, Supreme Court ruled that separate facilities were inherently unequal and ordered public schools to desegregate  
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Stokely Carmichael   show
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show integrated 9 black students with help from NAACP, attack by mobs at first but eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort  
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Civil Rights Act of 1957   show
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Civil Rights Act of 1964   show
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Civil Rights Act of 1968   show
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show advocated non-violence; sponsored Freedom Rides in the South, breaking segregation on buses  
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show NAACP leader in Mississippi; assassinated outside his home after President Kennedy’s speech for civil rights  
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show black and white members rode through the South on public buses to protest segregation in interstate transportation  
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show CORE declared this movement in which members boarded integrated buses in the North bound for the Deep South to show their support for the desegregation of public transit and bus stations  
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show nine African American students integrated Little Rock’s Central High School; federal troops sent in to escort them  
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show major advocate of Black Power who helped lead the Nation of Islam to national prominence; assassinated for breaking from nation of islam  
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show , King tirelessly led the struggle for integration and full equality through nonviolent means; assassinated in 1968; gave the I have a dream speech  
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Thurgood Marshall   show
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show followed the teachings of Elijah Muhammad as spoken by Malcolm X who openly criticized MLK and his followers as “Uncle Toms” who had sold themselves out to whites  
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show black seamstress who sparked the Montgomery bus boycott by refusing to give up her seat to a white man  
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show baseball players who became a symbol of civil rights when he broke the Major League’s color barrier in 1947  
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show organized to fight against segregation using nonviolent means  
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Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee   show
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Voting Rights Act of 1965   show
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Watts Race Riots   show
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show African American author who wrote about racial oppression; Uncle Tom’s Children, Native Son, Black Boy  
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