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On February 1, 1960, four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina, and politely asked for service. They were fefused.
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six miles southwest of Anniston, Ala., May 14, 1961. the freedom bus was burned
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Michael Harrington’s book The Other America was an influential study of poverty in the United States
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The Letter from Birmingham Jail or Letter from Birmingham City Jail, also known as The Negro Is Your Brother
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during the first week of May in 1963, Birmingham police and firefighters ruthlessly attacked civil rights demonstrators
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MLK gives his famous "I have a dream" speech.
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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.
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The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States
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served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963.
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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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was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women.
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Malcom X Assassinated by gunfire
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was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women
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The term Watts Riots of 1965 refers to a large-scale riot which lasted 6 days in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California,
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At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, a shot rang out. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
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A great man who spent thirteen years of his life dedicating himself to noviolent protest had been felled by a snipper bulley.
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Desegration of the United States.