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This timeline starts with the escape of Harriet Tubman to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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harriet tubmanwas born into slavery. She escaped and subsequently made more than13 missions to rescue more than 70 slaves using the Underground Railroad.
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It was a war between the United states North and South. It started because of slavery. It lasted for four years.
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It prohibits each government in the united states from denying a citizen the right to vote based on the citizens race, color, or previous condition of servitude (for example, slavery).
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The NAACP stands for National Assocation for the Advsncement of colored people.
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Jackiewas an American Baseball player.He became the first black major league baseball player.
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She got arrested for civil disobedience,for not giving up her seat to a white male.She was taken to jail. Soon she was bailed out of jail.
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It was a group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. They weren't allowed to enter the racially segregated school.
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It is a 17 minute speech by Martin Luther King. He delivered it on August 28, 1963.
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It's a church in Birmingham, Alabam which is frequencted by predominately African Americans.
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His family and others believed that the assassination was carried out by a conspiracy involving the U.S. government as alleged by Lloyd Jowers in 1993. This conclusion was affirmed by a jury in a 1999 civil trial.
