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The Emancipation Proclamation was made a formal document on this date. This was made to free the slaves from non-Union states. They could also not get near the states on the borders such as Maryland and West Virginia.
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An assamble of 100000 African American convice President Franklin D. Roosevelt an executive order banning discriminations in industries.
With this the Fair Employment Practices Committee was created -
Throughout 1950s and 1960s were marches and demonstrations demanded for equals civil rights.
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Randolph revived his ideas, African American were unemployed and under paid, thats why him and Rustin began to planning the March of Washington.
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25,0000 civil rights supporters assisted to the March of Washington gather before the Lincoln Monument for songs, prayers, speeches, one of the most famous, Martin Luther King%u2019s %u201C I Have a Dream%u201D. Of the people, 80% were not white. They all wanted freedom and equality.
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Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned racial discrimination in restaurants, hotels and other public places.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was standing on the balcony of his home and he was shot and killed by a sniper's bullet. Some people look at this date as one of the wort days in our history.