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CORE attorney who organized North Carolina sit-ins
Floyd McKissick
SNCC co founder who participated in Nashville sit-ins, Freedom Ride and spoke at the March on Washington
John Lewis
She was one of the leaders of the Nashville sit-in movement
Diane Nash
SNCC co-founder and communications director
Julian Bond
SNCC chairman who popularized the term "Black Power"
Stokely Carmichael
North Carolina A and T student council president who led protesters in 1963, later he ran for president.
Jesse Jackson
1961 rolling "test" to see if interstate transportation facilities were desegregated as required by law
Freedom Ride
Birmingham public safety commissioner who used fire hoses on protesters
Bull Connor
Student who desegregated the University of Mississippi
James Meredith
Mississippi governor who tried to block the desegregation of the University of Mississippi
Ross Barnett
Alabama governor who said he would "stand in every schoolhouse door" to defy desegregation
George Wallace
Georgia citywide desegregation campaign thay stalled and ended in a stalemate
Albany Movement
Religious group who believed the only cure for racism was self reliance, self defense, and separation of the races
Nation of Islam
Black novelist who believed white liberals were hypocrites and violence was unavoidable if changes were not made
James Baldwin
Fiery speaker who mocked the civil rights movement and referred to white people as "devils".
Malcolm X
Lyndon Johnson's plan to end racism and poverty through laws and federal assistance
Great Society
Federal agency established in 1964 to investigate claims of job discrimination
Equal Opportunity Commission
Sweeping legislation that prohibited discrimination in public accommodations and in hiring
Civil Rights Act of 1964
In the early 1960's it was considered the most racist city in America
Birmingham
In 1960 the largest and best organized sit-in protests took place here.
Nashville
SNCC
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
It banned poll taxes in 1964
24th Amendment
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
CORE
Congress of Racial Equality