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CORE got its start in 1942 with a sit-in at a Chicago coffee shop. CORE had a big hand in desegregating public facilities in Northern cities. CORE and FOR organized the inaugural Freedom Ride after the United States Supreme Court ruled in 1946 that segregated seating on interstate buses was unconstitutional. Some CORE volunteers were beaten, teargassed, and arrested, while others were slain by demonstrators.
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In 1940, African-Americans made up nearly 10 percentage of the full U.S. population. During World War II, the Army became the nation's biggest minority employer. Commission on Civil Rights encouraged more potent civil rights safety for African Americans. Report proposed anti-lynching and anti-ballot tax laws, bolstered Justice Department civil rights division. In 1948, President Truman issued an govt order abolishing segregation withinside the military.
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The United States Supreme Court held on May 17, 1954, that racial segregation in public schools was a violation of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment. Separate educational facilities for white and African American children were found fundamentally unequal in the judgement. Brown v. Board of Education, considered one of the most important decisions in the Supreme Court's history, sparked the American civil rights movement.
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The Greensboro sit-in established a model for peaceful resistance and represented the civil rights movement's first victory. Sit-ins were held across the country as a result of national media coverage of the protest. Soon after, restaurants across the South began to integrate, and by July 1960, the Greensboro Woolworth's lunch counter was serving Black customers.
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The Freedom Riders were gatherings of white and African American social equality activists who took an interest in Freedom Rides, transport trips through the American South in 1961. Freedom Riders attempted to utilize "whites-as it were" bathrooms and lunch counters at transport stations in Alabama, South Carolina and other Southern states. The gatherings were gone up against by capturing cops and bigot protestors, yet additionally caused global to notice the social liberties development.
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MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" is a significant report in the American social liberties development. The fights started on April 3, 1963 and were driven by Martin Luther King, Jr. They boycotted stores, walked through the roads and held protests at all-white lunch counters. On May tenth, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. was gone after by irate nonconformists in Birmingham, Alabama. Police utilized canines and fire hoses to go after the demonstrators.
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The Birmingham church bombing happened on September 15, 1963, when a bomb detonated at the sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Four little kids were killed and numerous others harmed. Shock over the occurrence and the brutal conflict among dissenters and police that followed helped cause public to notice the hard-battled, frequently risky battle for social equality.
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The March on Washington was the biggest gathering of civil rights. About 250,000 people attended the March on Washington for their freedom and their jobs on August 28, 1963. They arrived in Washington D.C. by trains, cars and other vehicles. One of the most famous speeches their is the "I have a dream" speech. The March on Washington brought everyone their closer together. Some people who attended were Jackie Robinson and Bill Russel. https://www.nps.gov/articles/march-on-washington.htm
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One of the most important legislative victories of the civil rights movement was the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which eliminated segregation in public places and prohibited employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. President John F. Kennedy sponsored it, and Lyndon B. Johnson, Kennedy's successor, signed it into law. The act was expanded by Congress, which passed new civil rights laws such as the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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The Mississippi Summer Project, also known as Freedom Summer, was a voter registration drive in 1964 that attempted to increase the number of registered Black voters in Mississippi. In Mississippi, almost 700 primarily white volunteers joined African Americans to oppose voting intimidation and prejudice.
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The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association staged a peaceful but illegal demonstration of 10,000 individuals in protest of the British government's policy of interning suspected IRA members without charge or trial. Demonstrators marched toward Guildhall Square in the city center, but the British troops had closed off much of the area, forcing most of the protesters to divert to Free Derry Corner. Soldiers were confronted by demonstrators.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law on August 6, 1965, hailing the day as "a success for freedom as great as any victory ever achieved on any battlefield" (Johnson, "Remarks in the Capitol Rotunda"). The measure was passed seven months after Martin Luther King launched a campaign in Selma, Alabama, called the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, with the goal of forcing Congress to approve such legislation.
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The Watts Rebellion, also known as the Watts Riots, was a large-scale series of riots that erupted in Los Angeles' largely Black Watts neighborhood on August 11, 1965. The Watts Rebellion lasted six days, resulting in 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, 4,000 arrests, 34,000 individuals involved, and 1,000 buildings destroyed, totaling $40 million in damages.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and died in Memphis, Tennessee, shortly after 6 p.m. in 1968. Martin Luther King became more worried about the subject of economic disparity in America before his death. In March 1968, he traveled to Memphis in support of poorly treated African-American sanitation workers, organizing a Poor People's Campaign that included a march on Washington.A protest organized by Martin Luther King on March 28 resulted in violence and the death of an African American teenager.
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The Poor People's Campaign was a 1968 campaign in the United States to attain economic justice for the poor. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference planned it (SCLC). Following King's assassination in April 1968, it was carried out under the direction of Ralph Abernathy. The movement called for economic and human rights for disadvantaged Americans from all walks of life.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was the first large-scale anti-segregation demonstration in the United States. To protest segregated seating, African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to board city buses. Rosa Parks, an African American lady, was jailed and fined four days before the boycott began for refusing to give up her seat to a white man. A teenage preacher named Martin Luther King Jr., one of the boycott's founders, became a notable civil rights activist.
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https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/executive-order-9981
https://www.britannica.com/event/Brown-v-Board-of-Education-of-Topeka
https://www.britannica.com/event/Greensboro-sit-in
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-rides#:~:text=Freedom%20Riders%20were%20groups%20of,to%20protest%20segregated%20bus%20terminals.
https://www.ducksters.com/history/civil_rights/birmingham_campaign.php
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Congress-of-Racial-Equality