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Campaign to register African American voters in Mississippi in 1964
Freedom Summer
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, case ruled that ___________ could be used to integrate schools
Busing
A policy that seeks to redress past discrimination to ensure equal opportunity.
Affirmative Action
1978 Supreme Court case that ruled the reverse discrimination should not be allowed in higher education
Bakke v UC Regents
The march from Selma ended in the city of _______.
Montgomery
The men who gave the Black power salute on the podium at the 1968 Olympics (name one)
Tommie Smith and John Carlos
Chicago Black Panther leader who was killed by the FBI in 1969
Fred Hampton
MLK's last protest to force Americans to recognize that capitalism impoverished miliions
Poor People's Campaign
Confrontation on the Edmund Pettus Bridge during a march for voting rights.
Bloody Sunday
Mississippi NAACP field director who was murdered in his driveway
Medgar Evers
Selma Sheriff who used violent tactics against protestors
James Clark
The three Freedom Summer workers who were murdered in Mississippi(name two)
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner
1965 southern California race riot that disillusioned many whites about the civil rights movement
Watts Riot
The April 4, 1968 murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the this city sparked protest riots across the country
Memphis, Tennessee
Name one of the two co-founders of the Black Panthers
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
Landmark legislation that aimed to end discrimination in voting
Voting Rights Act of 1965
White clergyman beaten to death in Selma
James Reeb
She was the Mississippi SNCC organizer and Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party co-founder
Fannie Lou Hamer
Belief that African americans should adopt African perspectives on knowledge and values
Afrocentricity
His murder helped inspire the Selma marches
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Commission established to investigate the causes of urban violence and racial unrest.
Kerner Commission
Considered the last major civil rights march led by James Meredith in 1966
March Against Fear
Legislation that prohibited discrimination in the rental or sale of housing
Civil Rights Act of 1968
SNCC national director who said "burn, baby, burn" in response to the race riots
H. Rap Brown
SCLC's campaign to force white businesses to hire black workers
Operation Breadbasket