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Declared that all persons born in the United States were not citizens, without regard to race, color, or previous condition
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Designed to protect southern blacks from the Ku Klux Klan by providing a civil remedy for abuses being comitted in the South
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Mandated racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans.
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Required each state to show that race was not an admissions criterion, or else to designate a separate land grant institution for persons of color.
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The Supreme Court ruled "Seperate but Equal" laws are legal in the Plessy vs. Ferguson Case
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President Truman signes Executive Order 9981
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Topeka case where the Supreme Court bans Segregation in all public schools in the United States
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14-year-old black boy is brutally murdered for whistling at a white woman
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In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat for a white man, causing a bus boycott by the Black Community
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was established by Martin Luther King, Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Charles K. Steele
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The Little Rock Central High school boeard votes on school integration
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Four black students from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in North Carolina stage a sit-in at a lunch counter where they are refused service
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Student volunteers called "freedom riders" begin testing state laws prohibiting segregation on buses and railway stations
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James meredith enrolls at the University of Mississippi by using the integration laws.
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Martin Luther King writes his "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
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During protests in Alabama, Commissioner of Public Safety Eugene "Bull" Connor uses police dogs and fire hoses on black protestors
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The head of the Mississippi NAACP is murdered outside his house
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Governor Wallace stands in the schoolhouse door of the University of Alabama before being forced by Kennedy to allow black students to enroll
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