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This happened directly after the end of the Civil war and was a way to regulate African American Rights. The laws included the separate but equal law where the African Americans were allowed rights such as school but a way lower scale which is said to be equal.
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This court hearing was about how segregating kids in schools was unconstitutional. The Jim Crow Laws had allowed this to happen.
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This event was about Rosa Parks being denied service and a spot towards the front of the bus due to her skin color.
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Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, is shown in this famous image, taken by Will Counts on September 4, 1957, walking quietly and carefully toward Little Rock Central High School despite being harassed by a resentful white crowd. The image emphasizes the individual bravery of young African American students during the Civil Rights Movement and powerfully depicts the fierce opposition to school desegregation in the American South. -
A school girl who attended a former all white school and while being escorted in she was met with the disapproval of everyone and got bombarded by many.
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A group of 4 african american students in a tech university began their civil rights movement by sitting at a “whites only lunch table” to try and rebel.
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A group of 7 african americans and 6 white people boarded buses after the new bill that banned segregation of transportation and they still got met with violence and disapproval by many.
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the U.S. Supreme Court declared the Virginia statutes prohibiting interracial marriage unconstitutional in the case Loving v. Virginia. The case was decided nine years after Richard Loving, a white man, and Mildred Jeter, a woman of mixed African American and Native American ancestry, had pleaded guilty to having violated Virginia state law prohibiting a white person and a “colored” person from leaving the state to be married and returning to live as man and wife.
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The act authorized the government to stop racial segregation in voting, employment and use of public things.
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This timeless picture documents the tense moment on March 7, 1965, when civil rights activists Hosea Williams and John Lewis marched peacefully across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. State troopers and sheriff's deputies from Alabama greeted them, and soon after, they began a bloody assault with horses, nightsticks, and tear gas. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed as a result of the nation's shock at the brutality depicted in these and other images. -
In the wake of the assassination of Malcolm X and urban uprisings, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, to protect African American neighborhoods from police brutality.
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This bar chart illustrates the significant increase in Black voter registration rates across several Southern states following the enactment of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. It highlights the effectiveness of the legislation in reducing barriers to voting for -
After his death the government passed the fair housing act and made it unlawful for sellers, landlords, and financial institutions to refuse to rent, sell, or provide financing for a dwelling based on factors other than an individual’s financial resources.
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Henry "Hank" Aaron hits his 715th home run, breaking Babe Ruth's record and becoming Major League Baseball's all-time home run leader, a record he would hold until he was bested by Barry Bonds in 2007
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As part of the Challenger Space Shuttle crew. A former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, he served as a flight engineer and mission specialist and returned to space three more times and was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame and U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame
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New York’s Vanessa Williams is crowned the first Black Miss America at age 20. On July 23, 1984, she gives up her crown following Penthouse magazine’s announcement it would publish nude photos of her
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Unveiled in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, on what would have been King's 57th birthday. It’s the first statue of a Black American to appear in the building. Four days later, on January 20, the first national Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is observed
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“Four days later, on January 20, the first national Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is observed.” In 1986, the first national Martin Luther King Jr. holiday was observed, honoring the civil rights leader's contributions to the movement.
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Becomes the first Black woman to fly in space, serving as a science mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Endeavour
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Black woman to earn the honor
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Condoleezza Rice takes office as the first Black woman secretary of state, also serving under George W. Bush for four years.
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He broke this record signifying a new great in this sport.
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Elected the 44th president of the United States, becoming the nation's first Black American to lead the nation
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“On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States; he is the first African American to hold that office.” On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold that office.
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Ahmaud Arbery, is chased and gunned down in Georgia by a white father and son. Breonna Taylor, had been asleep in bed, is killed by Kentucky police during a botched no-knock raid. George Floyd, dies after being pinned to the ground with a knee pressed to his neck by a Minneapolis police officer.