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| Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas |
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| A 1954 Supreme Court case in which racial segregation in public schools is outlawed |
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| A protest in 1955-56 by African Americans against racial segregation in the bus system on Montgomery, Alabama |
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| The process of bringing people of different races together |
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| Between, among, or involving people of different races |
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| Congress of Racial Equality |
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| Organization founded by pacifists in 1942 to promote racial equality through peaceful means |
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| Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
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| A civil rights organization that advocated nonviolent protest; formed in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and other leaders |
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| a peaceful way of protesting against restrictive policies |
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| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
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| An offshoot of the SCLC, a student civil rights organization founded in 1960 |
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| A form of protest in which protesters seat themselves and refuse to move |
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| A 1961 event organized by CORE and SNCC in which an interracial group of civil rights activist tested southern states' compliance to the Supreme Court ban of segregation on interstate buses |
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| A 1963 civil rights demonstration in Washington, DC, in which protesters called for "jobs and freedom" |
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| A tactic in which senators prevent a vote on a measure by taking the floor and refusing to stop talking |
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| In Senate, a three-fifths vote to limit debate and call for a vote on an issue |
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| A law that made discrimination illegal in a number of areas, including voting, schools, and jobs |
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| Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
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| A law aimed at reducing the barriers that prevented African Americans from voting, in part by increasing the federal government's authority to register voters |
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| A constitutional amendment ratified in 1964 to outlaw the poll tax |
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| An organization, also called the Black Muslims, dedicated to black separation and self-help |
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| A belief in the separate identity and racial unity of the African American community |
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| An African American movement seeking unity and self-reliance |
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| Racial segregation created by law |
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| Separation caused by social conditions such as poverty |
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