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this was a landmark decision of the U.S. supreme court issued in 1896. upheld the constitutionally of racial segregation law
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First african american fighter pilots in the world war ll also fought hilter and racism and fought racis at home
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became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era.
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important step in civil right was the integration of the US military in 1948
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desegregating the ut law school in austin
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ending segregation. It overturned the equally far-reaching decision of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896
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a spark in the upsurge of activism and resistance that became known as the Civil Rights movement
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the mother of the civil rights movement," Rosa Parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Our site was the first major test of the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling that declared state laws establishing separate schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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The new act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote.
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lead the way for desegregation in North Carolina.
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sought to test a 1960 decision by the Supreme Court in Boynton v. Virginia that segregation of interstate transportation facilities, including bus terminals, was unconstitutional as well
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United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
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Southern segregationists rioted and fought state and federal forcesprevent the enrollment of the first African American student to attend the university, James Meredith
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James Hood and Vivian Malone became the first two black students to enroll successfully at the University of Alabama, defying Gov. George C. Wallace Jr.'s symbolic — and vitriolic — “stand in the schoolhouse door.”
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helping pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act
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It made the country fear what they would do next without they're president.
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The Act prohibited discrimination in public accommodations and federally funded program
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He organized temples; founded a newspaper; and led Temple No. 7 in New York City's Harlem.
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ohn Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and faced brutal attacks by oncoming state troopers,
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outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting
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assassinations triggered active unrest in communities that were already discontented.
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prohibits discrimination concerning the sale, rental, or financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, and sex.
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