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The United States supreme court established that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. Oliver Brown, and his daughter Linda because Linda was denied admission in a white school. The outcome of this event was the end of legalized segregation in schools.
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It was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit in Montgomery, Alabama. Martin Luther King Jr. became to be known as the leader of this. A ruling by the Supreme Court said this was unconstitutional and the bus boycott ended successfully
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This was a group of young African Americans that had staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth lunch counter. There was 4 African Americans named, Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil. All four were students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College. These sit ins succeeded in desegregating many public facilities.
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It was a project to increase the number of black voters in Mississippi. Over 700 white volunteers joined with the African Americans to fight against voting discrimination and intimidation. It was only successful for 1200 out of 17000 people.
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It was also known as the Watts Rebellion. It was a large series of riots that broke out in the black neighborhood of Watts in Los Angeles. These Riots were started due to an arrest of an African american by the name of Marquette Frye. African americans rebelled. the outcome of this event was 34 deaths, and 40 million in property damages
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it was a group of people that were trying to challenge police brutality against the African American Community. The people who founded this went by the names, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, they had met at Merritt college in oakland. -
After invesitgating, a report was released. it called out all of the racial things happening to people. The people involved was Governor Otto Kerner and Lyndon B. Johnson. -
These were riots that broke out the night of Martin Luther Kings assassination. A lot of looting, and violence occured during these riots. Martin Luther Kings was involved because he got assassinated, that started all of these riots. african americans were also involved. -
these were riots that broke out because of the shooting and killing of an african american 14 year old. she was shot by a police officer. these killings sparked three days worth of riots
