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The slave trade has began. They captured Africans to to work for the Amercians.
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Slaves were sent to the USA from Africa often against their will. This was stopped in 1808.
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The civil rights movement started in the year 1865.
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State laws, aimed to segregate between whites and blacks in the use of transport and public facilities and in the outlawing of marriage between the two racial groups.
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It's the first year with NO lynching since 1881
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A state law says that Black and White schools aren't equal. People said that white schools have better teachers and better educations. Black schools have bad teachers and education.
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The bust boycott startes when Rosa Parks got arrested for sitting in the white peoples seats on a bus
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After Little Rock school board votes to integrate schools, National Guard troops prevent black children from attending school. 1000 federal troopers are needed to escort black students and preserve peace.
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Black and white people take buses to the South to protest bus station segregation. Many of them are greeted by getting beat.
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Over 25 race riots occur in the summer of 1919 with 38 killed in Chicago. 70 blacks, including 10 veterans, are lynched in the South.
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He was a peaceful leader for the advansiment of civil rights. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated when he was 39 by James Earl Ray.
