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| Freedom Rides | May 1961 two groups left Washington D.C. to travel through the South, Helped to bring more national attention to Civil Rights Movement. |
| Emmett Till | Aug. 1955 14 year old boy from Chicago killed in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman. Helps begin the Civil Rights Movement. |
| Black Panthers | a political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community. Dressed in black berets and black leather jackets, the Black Panthers organized armed citizen patrols of Oakland and other U.S. cities. |
| Rosa Parks | Dec. 1955, Montgomery Alabama, a black woman refused to move to the back of the bus. |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | Civil Rights Leader, believed in nonviolent means of protest. Became a leader of the NAACP, and president of SCLC. |
| Brown V. The Board of Education | Reversed Plessey vs. Ferguson (1896). Supreme Court decision that ended segregation in public school. |
| James Meredith | First black student at University of Mississippi. Attempted assassination. |
| American Indian Movement | Native American Activist Organization (1968). Fight for Treaty Rights, better conditions on Reservations and more opportunities for Native Americans. |
| Race Riots | Racial violence spreads to West Coast (L.A.) when white cops mistreat a black man. |
| Voting Rights Act | Voting rights of Black Americans were now backed up by the federal government. No longer had to pay a tax, take a literacy test, and were now registered by federal officials. |
| 16th Street Baptist Church | Sept. 15, 1963 (2 weeks after “March”) KKK bombed a church in Birmingham killing four young girls. Anger from this helped to get the Civil Rights Act passed. |
| Sit-ins | Plan was to sit at a segregated lunch counter. |
| Little Rock Nine | Black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. Attempt to end segregation. |
| Cesar Chavez | United Farm Workers (late 60s, California). Wanted improvements for farm and migrant workers, (insurance, higher wages, better working conditions). |
| Black Power Movement | a political and social movement whose advocates believed in racial pride, self-sufficiency, and equality for all people of Black and African descent. |
| SNCC | Started 1960. Another nonviolent organization working for Civil Rights, Changed focus to the Black Power Movement. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Outlawed segregation in public facilities, government, and hiring practices. |
| Wounded Knee II | A.I.M. members occupied the Wounded Knee State Park. Govt. responded by sending in officers leaving one protester and two FBI agents dead. |
| Occupation of Alcatraz | Native American takeover of the island. It was a protest for Native American rights. |
| SCLC | Started 1957 by MLK. Built on nonviolent principles, protests, boycotts, sit-ins, organized people to get involved. |
| Malcolm X | Adopted “Nation of Islam” while in jail. Less peaceful than MLK. |
