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Questions 20- 26

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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Questions 20- 26

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  1. Questions 20- 26

  2. Jesse Jackson • Civil Rights leader. • Came out of the student movement from North Carolina A & T College.

  3. SNCC • Organization of students that was led by Ella Baker. • Stands for Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. • Formed in 1960.

  4. Main Issue of the SNCC • The main issue for the SNCC was registering the African Americans from the Deep South to vote.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. JFK • Had just became the President of the U.S. when all of this happened.

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