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MFDP:the delegates from this party challenged the seating of all-white Mississippi representatives at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
Brown vs Board:This Supreme Court decision unanimously against school segregation, overturning its 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson
SNCC:Founded in 1960 at Shaw University by a group of students who were mentored by Ella Baker, led a new wave of black radicalism in 1960s
Civil Rights Act 1964:Outlawed segregation in public accommodations.
Malcolm X:becomes national minister of the Nation of Islam. He rejects the nonviolent civil-rights movement and integration, and becomes a champion of African American separatism and black pride.
Fannie Lou Hamer:spoke about blacks’ desire to “live as decent human beings"
JFK:Assassinated in November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas
10925:In 1961, President Kennedy issues Executive Order _which establishes a Presidential committee that later becomes the Equal Employment Opportunity
Bull:The Public Safety Commissioner T. Eugene “______” Connor turned fire hoses and police dogs on protestors, including kids, in Birmingham, Alabama.
Phildadelphia:Civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner went missing during a trip to investigate the burning of a church – June 21, 1964 in ___________, Mississippi.
Voting Rights Act of 1965:Federal government to oversee elections and voter registration.
Black Nationalism:creation of the black nation state and pursit of black self-determination
Freedom Summer:The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), CORE and the NAACP and other civil-rights groups organize a massive African American voter registration drive in Mississippi known as
Affirmation Action:Designed to correct racial imbalances in education, employment, etc.
Black Panthers:Retaliated against police brutality by organizing armed patrols of black neighborhoods
Black Power:Stokely Carmichael (later known as Kwame Toure) and others arrested in Greenwood, Mississippi for initiating the call for "_____"
MLK:Leader and philosopher of the movement, gave the famous "i Had A Dream" speech.
Hoover:Director (last name) orders the FBI to begin the COINTELPRO program to investigate and disrupt "dissident" groups within the United States.
Claudette Colvin:First documented African American woman who refused to give her seat up in Montgomery, AL. Prior to Rosa Parks!
James Brown:Soul Culture swept the nation in the late 1960s, name the artist that sung "Say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud!"
Angela Davis:Famous female member of the Black Panther Party and Communist Party. Later committed her life to working towards prisoner's rights.
Civil Rights Act of 1968:banned racial discrimination in housing and jury selection and authorized federal intervention when states failed to protect civil rights workers from violence.
CORE:organized Freedom Rides to integrate interstate transportation in the South.
King: On April 4, 1968, ________ was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
Black Freedom Movement
Across:1. | Stokely Carmichael (later known as Kwame Toure) and others arrested in Greenwood, Mississippi for initiating the call for "_____" | 5. | banned racial discrimination in housing and jury selection and authorized federal intervention when states failed to protect civil rights workers from violence. | 9. | Designed to correct racial imbalances in education, employment, etc. | 10. | In 1961, President Kennedy issues Executive Order _which establishes a Presidential committee that later becomes the Equal Employment Opportunity |
| | Down:2. | Outlawed segregation in public accommodations. | 3. | Leader and philosopher of the movement, gave the famous "i Had A Dream" speech. | 4. | the delegates from this party challenged the seating of all-white Mississippi representatives at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. | 6. | Assassinated in November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas | 7. | This Supreme Court decision unanimously against school segregation, overturning its 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson | 8. | Federal government to oversee elections and voter registration. |
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Black Freedom Movement
Across:1. | Stokely Carmichael (later known as Kwame Toure) and others arrested in Greenwood, Mississippi for initiating the call for "_____" | 5. | banned racial discrimination in housing and jury selection and authorized federal intervention when states failed to protect civil rights workers from violence. | 9. | Designed to correct racial imbalances in education, employment, etc. | 10. | In 1961, President Kennedy issues Executive Order _which establishes a Presidential committee that later becomes the Equal Employment Opportunity |
| | Down:2. | Outlawed segregation in public accommodations. | 3. | Leader and philosopher of the movement, gave the famous "i Had A Dream" speech. | 4. | the delegates from this party challenged the seating of all-white Mississippi representatives at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. | 6. | Assassinated in November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas | 7. | This Supreme Court decision unanimously against school segregation, overturning its 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson | 8. | Federal government to oversee elections and voter registration. |
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