The Civil Rights Movement Revised Edition
6 August Voting Rights Act becomes law. 11 August Race riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles. 1966 13 January Robert W ...
1971 20 April Swannv. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Educationapproves busing to achieve school desegregation. 18 December PUSH ...
Who’s Who Abernathy, Ralph(1926 –90): Martin Luther King Jr.’s trusted lieutenant. Baker, Ella(1903– 86): NAACP activist and SCL ...
Carmichael, Stokely(1941–98): Organizer of voter registration projects in Mississippi and Lowndes county, Alabama; charismatic S ...
Gandhi, Mohandas(1887–1940): Nonviolent philosopher from India who inspired American civil rights leaders, especially King. Garv ...
Lawson, James, Jr.(1928– ): Clergyman who led the sit-in movement in Nashville, helped found SNCC, joined the Freedom Ride, and ...
Pattillo, Melba(1941– ): One of the Little Rock Nine who desegregated Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas. Powell, Adam C ...
Till, Emmett (1941–55): Chicago teenager murdered in Mississippi for allegedly flirting with a white woman. Truman, Harry (1884– ...
Glossary Affirmative Action: Government and private programs designed to overcome the legacy of discrimination against minoritie ...
Black Panthers: A radical group founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale that armed itself against the police and demanded ...
Civil Rights Act of 1991: Banned intentional workplace discrimination by employers. Commission on Interracial Cooperation: Forme ...
Freedom Ride: CORE’s 1961 demonstration to test whether interstate trans- portation facilities were desegregated, as the Supreme ...
March Against Fear: James Meredith’s ill-fated attempt in 1966 to defy white violence by walking alone through Mississippi. Marc ...
Poor People’s Campaign: Martin Luther King’s unsuccessful last protest to force Americans to recognize that capitalism impoveris ...
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: This student-run organization was formed after the 1960 sit-ins to organize a communi ...
Maps xxxv Map 1 Key events in the civil rights movementSource : Boyer et al. , Promises to Keep . Copyright © 1995 by Houghton M ...
xxxvi THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT Map 2 Mississippi Source: Adapted from Davis, T. (1998) Weary Feet, Rested Souls, pub. W.W. Nort ...
The Problem Racism: The practice of discriminating against ethnic groups different from one’s own. U ntil the twentieth century, ...
only a black slave. This said, slaves under Islamic rule were generally treated more humanely, were more likely to be manumitted ...
The Problem 3 fulfill. To meet spiraling demand and to keep labor costs low, these modern entrepreneurs developed a novel kind o ...
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