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Emmett age 14 was visiting family in Money, Mississippi was brutally murdered after flirting with a white woman four days earlier.
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- On the first of December of 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested for not standing and letting a white person sit in her seat she refused to stand and this led to the bus boycott
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Were the 9 African American students involved in desegregation of Little Rock Central High School
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Was an effort to make the Northern States Free states and the Southern states slave states this law prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory.
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Harriet Tubman was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad born a slave in Maryland; she escaped when she was only 25 years old. She returned to the South over 19 times to help over 300 enslaved African Americans to freedom.
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August 28, 1963 King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and gave his “I Have a Dream “speech, this delivered 200,000 civil rights supporters.
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September 15, 1963 racially motivated bombing of Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, which resulted in the death of four innocent black girls, perhaps the darkest day in Birmingham’s history.
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Guaranteed those former slaves retained the right to vote by banning state suffrage laws that discriminated against any group of citizens on the bias of race.
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April 4th 1969 Martin Luther King was hit by a sniper’s bullet while standing in a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee the bullet entered King’s cheek traveled through his neck and finally stopped at his shoulder blade he was rushed it a nearby hospital and was pronounced dead an hour after he was shot.
