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NAACP
Was one of the earlest and most influential civil rights organizations. -
CORE
Group of nonviolent civil rights activest that helped MLK jr. with many dicesions. -
Jackie Robinson
He was the first African Amrican to play major league baseball. He maid advancements for civil rights for black athletes. -
Bull Connor
He was the commissioner who had peaceful civil rights protesters jailed and sprayed with fire hoses. -
Rosa Parks
She refused to give up her seat to a white passinger which caused a city-wide bus boycott. -
SCLC
Was a group of black minesters and civil roghts leaders who took a nonviolent approach towards ending legalized segregation. -
SNCC
It played a central roal in civil rights and reflected black activism. -
Stokley Carmichael
He was best known for leading the civil rights group SNCC. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
He was a civil rights activist. He headed the SCLA and he had a major role in endinglegal segation of Aferican Americans across the nation. He also helped with the creationof the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voiting Rights act of 1964. -
Fannie Lou Hamer
She was a civil rights activest who encourged blacks to vote.She also worked for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and she helped found the Mississippi Fredom Democratic party. -
Lyndon Johnson
He pushed more civil rights legislation then any other president ever. -
KKK
The KKK was a secret vigilant group who murdered, lynched, and beat freed black men and anyone who helped them. -
Black Panthers
They belaved that the nonviolent approach to civil rights had failed and took a violent approach towards fredom.
