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Freedom Summer
Launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which had historically excluded most blacks from voting.
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader.
Southern Manifesto
Document written in February and March 1956, in the United States Congress, in opposition to racial integration of public places.
CORE
Founded in Chicago in 1942 by James L. Farmer, Jr., George Houser, James R. Robinson, Bernice Fisher, Homer Jack, and Joe Guinn. Anyone who believes that all people are created equal and are willing to work towards the equality.
Plessy V. Ferguson
1896 was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of separate but equal.
Murder of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner
Involve the several lynchings by white Mississippians during the Civil Rights Movement. On the night of June 21–22, 1964, Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner were threatened, intimidated, beaten, shot, and buried by members of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County's Sheriff Office and the Philadelphia Police Department located in Philadelphia, Mississippi. After the largest and most televised search at the time, their bodies were found 44 days later in an earthen dam near the murder site.
Stokely Carmichael and "Black Power"
This was a political slogan and a name for various associated ideologies aimed at achieving self-determination for people of African/Black descent. This was first started by Stokely Carmichael in an effort to encourage Blacks to be ready to fight to defend themselves.
Launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which had historically excluded most blacks from voting.
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader.
Southern Manifesto
Document written in February and March 1956, in the United States Congress, in opposition to racial integration of public places.
CORE
Founded in Chicago in 1942 by James L. Farmer, Jr., George Houser, James R. Robinson, Bernice Fisher, Homer Jack, and Joe Guinn. Anyone who believes that all people are created equal and are willing to work towards the equality.
Plessy V. Ferguson
1896 was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of separate but equal.
Murder of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner
Involve the several lynchings by white Mississippians during the Civil Rights Movement. On the night of June 21–22, 1964, Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner were threatened, intimidated, beaten, shot, and buried by members of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County's Sheriff Office and the Philadelphia Police Department located in Philadelphia, Mississippi. After the largest and most televised search at the time, their bodies were found 44 days later in an earthen dam near the murder site.
Stokely Carmichael and "Black Power"
This was a political slogan and a name for various associated ideologies aimed at achieving self-determination for people of African/Black descent. This was first started by Stokely Carmichael in an effort to encourage Blacks to be ready to fight to defend themselves.