Civil Rights in the 1950s and 1960s
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| Upheld the use of the commerce clause as the basis for civil rights legislation by the federal govt | Heart of Atlanta v. US
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| Allowed the federal govt. to register voters where literacy tests and other restrictions on blacks voting had been in effect before Nov., 1964 | Voting Rights Act of 1965
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| Location of one of the worst race riots in US history in the "long hot summer" of 1965 | Watts
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| Leader who championed Black Power, calling on blacks to united and build a sense of community; originally the head of SNCC but then joined the Black Panthers | Stokely Carmichael
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| College students take over a lunch counter at Woolworth's | Greensboro sit-ins
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| Ruled that numerical quotas for affirmative action were unconstitutional | Bakke v. University of California at Davis
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| Outlawed the use of a poll tax to keep blacks from voting in federal elections | Twenty-Fourth Amendment
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| Organization that MLK helped to found to lead marches to protest racial discrimination | SCLC
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| 250,000 Americans marched to protest segregation to press Congress to pass the civil rights bill | March on Washington
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| Groups of students protest segregation on interstate buses in the Deep South | Freedom rides
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| Issued a report saying that America is moving toward two societies,...separate and unequal | Kerner Commission
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| Three volunteers murdered by KKK when they tried to lead a voter registration in the South | Freedom Summer of 1964
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| Ruled that arbitrarily drawn electoral districts violate constitutional rights | Baker v. Carr
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| Prohibited discrimination in public accommodations, forbade employers and unions from discriminating against minorities; and authorized the Attorney General to intervene on behalf of victims of discrimination | Civil Rights Act of 1964
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| Established principle of "one man, one vote" and ended overrepresentation of rural districts | Wesberry v. Sanders
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| Leader of the Nation of Islam who called for the formation of an independent, all-black nation within the US | Elijah Muhammed
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| Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and said that segregated schools were inherently unequal | Brown v. BOE
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| Eisenhower ordered out the National Guard to order the admission of black students in this crisis | Desegregation of Central High School (Little Rock)
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| Founders of the SCLC | Ralph Abernathy and MLK
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| Site of worst race riots in American history in "long, hot summer" of 1967 | Detroit
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| Imprisoned for robbery, he bacame a Black Muslim, preaching black separatism and racial pride; Split from the Nation of Islam; assassinated | Malcolm X
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| Founders of the Black Panthers | Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
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| Militant organization that preached pride in African-American culture and black separtism as well as community involvement | Black Panthers
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| Protested segregation in public buses; launched MLK as the leader of the civil rights movment | Montgomery bus boycott
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| MLK led a march to this city to start registering black voters; met with violence that was shown on TV and swayed public opinion | Selma
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