Civil Rights Movement (Group Test 1)

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Civil Rights are...

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The rights (freedoms and entitlements) of citizens.

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A protest strategy that calls for peaceful demonstrations and the rejection of violence.

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Non-violent Resistance

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The process (also known as desegregation) of ending race-based segregation within American society; especially within schools and public facilities.

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Integration

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A massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the "March for Jobs and Freedom."

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March on Washington

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Created on January 10-11, 1957, when sixty black ministers and civil rights leaders met in Atlanta, Georgia in an effort to replicate the successful strategy and tactics of the recently concluded Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was chosen as the first president of this new group dedicated to abolishing legalized segregation and ending the disfranchisement of black southerners in a non-violent manner. What is the name of this group?

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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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Advocacy of or support for unity and political self-determination for black people, especially in the form of a separate black nation. Some advocated to create a new political state for African Americans in Africa.

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Black Nationalism

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Political organization formed in the 1960s that called for empowerment of and defense for African Americans. Founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community.

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Black Panther Party

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The advocacy that black Americans were entitled to secure their rights "by any means necessary," up to and including the use of violence.

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By Any Means Necessary

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Black Muslims; black nationalist religious group founded by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad in 1930.

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Nation of Islam