PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
HIPPIES AND THE COUNTERCULTURE
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affirmative action
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de facto segregation
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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National Organization for Women
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Detailed explanation-1: -Voter registration campaigns were the primary focus for SNCC members in Mississippi, and their efforts gave momentum for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In 1966, Stokely Carmichael was elected chairman of the organization.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in 1960 in the wake of student-led sit-ins at segregated lunch counters across the South and became the major channel of student participation in the civil rights movement.
Detailed explanation-3: -Thompson, Rudy Lombard, James Bevel, Marion Barry, Angeline Butler, Stokely Carmichael, and Joan Trumpauer Mulholland joined John Lewis and Hank Thomas, the two young SNCC members of the original Ride.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. The sit-in movement soon spread to college towns throughout the South.