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Questions 20- 26. Jesse Jackson. Civil Rights leader. Came out of the student movement from North Carolina A & T College. SNCC. Organization of students that was led by Ella Baker. Stands for Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Formed in 1960. Main Issue of the SNCC.
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Jesse Jackson • Civil Rights leader. • Came out of the student movement from North Carolina A & T College.
SNCC • Organization of students that was led by Ella Baker. • Stands for Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. • Formed in 1960.
Main Issue of the SNCC • The main issue for the SNCC was registering the African Americans from the Deep South to vote.
Freedom Riders • They were teams of African Americans and whites. • They traveled on interstate buses to the south to draw attention to the South’s refusal to integrate bus terminals. • When they came to Birmingham they were attacked.
Eugene “Bull” Connor • He had the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) attack the Freedom Riders. • The day that the Freedom Riders got attacked by the KKK he gave the police the day off.
JFK • Had just became the President of the U.S. when all of this happened.