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Derrick Johnson
February 12 , 1909 -
Marcus Garvey 1914
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The school was the site of forced desegregation in 1957
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt
June 25 , 1941 -
James Farmer
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A revolutionary African-American political activist , A fellow Merritt College student Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966
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President Harry S. Truman
July 26, 1948 -
American state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
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a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955.
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a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States
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Democrat United States Senator John F. Kennedy defeated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican Party nominee.
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brutally attacked by violent, well-armed and organized mobs of Klansman and other terrorists in Anniston and Birmingham, Ala
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a protest march by thousands of school students in Birmingham, Alabama, from May 2-5, 1963.
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Where MLK called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.
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November 22, 1963, Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, TX
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also known as the Freedom Summer murders ,the Mississippi Burning murders, involved three activists who were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi
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The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery. Mar 7, 1965 – Mar 21, 1965
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On August 11, 1965, Marquette Frye, an African-American motorist on parole for robbery, was pulled over for reckless driving
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St. Joseph's Hospital, Memphis
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the Vanderbilt Divinity School student who was expelled in 1960 over his leadership in the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins.
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Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, CA
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an American nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation.
