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The 14th amendment is that blacks have the equal protection under the law.
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The 15th amendment is that the blacks have the right to vote.
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• In 1875 the Supreme Court passed a law saying that store owners could not segrigate
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Plessy was thrown in jail for sitting in the white train car.
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Separate but equal rights was established for blacks.
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The Supreme Court shot down Plessy v. Ferguson “separate but equal."
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Emmett Till was found in a river with no eye
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Rose Parks was arrested for sitting in the no-mans land and refused to more.
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The Montgomery Boycott started.
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Nine black students at Central High School “an all-white high school” became the "Little Rock Nine.” They were withdrawn on Sept 20, 1957. On Sept 23 the Little Rock policeman had to escort them thought a back door so they could begin their classes. Without being mobbed by 1,000 people.
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President Kennedy issued the order 10925, that people can’t not hire someone because of their religion or race.
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• James Meredith was the first black to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
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Four young girls where at Sunday school when a bomb went off in Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, after this 2 more young kids were killed.
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JFK was assassinated in a parade.
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The 24 amendment was abolished effecting 11 southern sates making it hard for black to vote.
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President Jonson signed the Civil rights act of 1964.
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The bodies of one black and two white men were found in an earthen dam.
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Congress passed the voting rights act of 1965.
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Martin Luther King Jr was shot at the age of 39
