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She becomes bedridden, which delayed publication of her book.
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Left SCLC after the Greensboro sit-ins
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Just as she was almost fully recovered, she discovered cysts in her left breast, which required mastectomy.
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Meeting with student leaders of sit-ins. Founded SNCC during the meeting
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To Kill a Mockingbird is published.
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The tumor was malignant and the cancer had spread.
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Worked with CORE to organize Freedom Rides.
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To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize.
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She attends a protest meeting
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Her and 17 other African-Americans go to the county courthouse to register themselves.
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Weeks leading up to publication, there’s strong opposition to the book.
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Got fired from her job because of the registry.
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Silent Spring is publsihed
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To Kill a Mockingbird movie premiers in Hollywood.
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Doesn’t understand why blacks are excited to see a statue of a white president that didn’t even like them when he was alive.
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TV special “The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson” aired.
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Her and 2 other African-Americans were arrested for attending a training workshop.
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Because of his “Chickens Come Home to Roost” speech about the assassination of President Kennedy, he is suspended from representing the Nation of Islam.
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Leads one of the largest civil rights events, which was the Unity Rally in Harlem
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To Kill a Mockingbird movie is nominated for 8 Academy Awards.
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Shot at Winona, Mississippi jail and suffered permanent kidney damage.
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New York Times said he was the second best speaker in the US.
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She was given a flurry of awards.
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The movement had lost momentum due to attacks on the book and to Carson.
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Begins writing his autobiography in collaboration with Alex Haley.
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SNCC helped create Freedom Summer.
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Meets Martin Luther King Jr.
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She died due to many things. All her sickness, the radiation therapy for her breast cancer, the cancer had gotten to her liver, and a heart attack, which had been fatal.
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Helped found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
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Helped SCLC form the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
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Breaks away from the Nation of Islam and forms Muslim Mosque, Inc.
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Visits Makka and Africa. After visiting Makka and seeing the beauty of humanity being united, he embraces true Islam.
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Returns to NYC and fought for human rights until her death
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Worked with SNCC, helped organize Freedom Summer African-American voter registration drive in Mississippi.
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Comes back to America thinking differently about white people.
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Forms Organization for Afro-American Unity.
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Returns to Africa and meets with African leaders.
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Burnt herself in a kitchen accident and that kept her from writing.
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House is firebombed in the morning
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During an adress, he is shot several times at 3:10 p.m. and is pronounced dead upon arrival to a hospital.
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Ove 20,000 atttend his funeral.
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Ran for congress in Mississippi but was unsuccessful.
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Assisted Indians achieve goals. For example, economic independence, revitalization of traditional culture, protection of legal rights, and, most especially, autonomy over tribal areas and the restoration of lands that they believed had been illegally seized.