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- 4. political party fought police brutality in the ghetto
- 5. blackk muslims
- 6. programs involve making special efforts to hire or enroll groups that have suffered discrimination.
- 9. him, Martin Luther King Jr., and Floyd McKissick decided to lead their followers n a march to finish what Meredith had started.
- 12. hoped to provoke a violent reaction that would convince Kennedy administration to enforce the law.
- 15. "If you think we are here to tell you to love the white man you have come to the wrong place."
- 16. African American protestors sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to lave until served.
- 18. case that involved the denied rights to attend ann all white elementary school.
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- 1. "It was time for someone to stand or in my case, sit down."
- 2. him and his NAACP lawyers won 29 out of 32 cases argued before the Supreme Court.
- 3. in this case the supreme court ruled the " separate but equal" law did not violate he 14th amendment which guarantees all a americans equal treatment under the law.
- 7. CORE and SNCC workers in the south began registering as many African Americans as they could to vote to influence Congress to pass voting rights.
- 8. prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender.
- 10. won a federal court case that allowed him to enroll in the all white university of Mississippi.
- 11. eliminated so called literacy tests hat had disqualified many voters.
- 13. its purpose was to carry on nonviolent crusades against the evils of second class citizenship.
- 14. a 26 year ld pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church.
- 17. national protest group formed by students at Shaw University.
