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Grants Equal Protection under the law to everybody.
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Bans racial discrimination in voting
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The NAACP ( National Association for Advancement of Colored People) is founded to help African Americans get jobs and to be treated fairly.
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Segregation was no longer legal in the Military
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Outlaws segregation in public schools.
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Bus Boycotts from Rosa Park's arrest for not giving up her seat to a white passenger.
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Freedom Rides start in Washington D.C.
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Malcolm X becomes the National Minister of the Nation of Islam.
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Martin Luther King Jr's famous I Have A Dream speech delivered in Washington DC during a protest
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Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black member of the supreme court.
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Congressional Black Caucus is established
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The National Black Feminist Organization is formed.
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Miami Riots start which were considered the worst riots in US History since 1967.
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Black Entertainment Television launches
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Guion Bluford becomes the first African American in Space
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The Color Purple written by poet Alice Walker wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Novels
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The Cosby Show makes its debut on TV as the most successful series with a cast of African Americans.
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MLK Day becomes national holiday that celebrates and remembers Martin Luther King Jr as well as African American Civil Rights.
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an estimated 8000 arrested, 2000 injured and 50 people murdered
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Affirmative Action is no longer needed in workplaces so it is abolished
