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A slave by the name Nat Turner led a slave rebellion. Turner and a group of slaves killed 60 white men, women, and children. He was caught with 16 others and executed. Other black were killed to warn others.
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Dred Scott was a salve. He was taken to the free state Illinois by his master. Scotts master took him back to Missouri, a slavve state. After his master died he sued for his freedom. The court said that he was to remain a slave.
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Freed all the slaves in the rebellious states.
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First Blacks School
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Case letting blacks on a jury.
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Jackie Robinson was recruited to the Dodgers. He played with whites in major league baseball.
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The case in which seperate public schools for blacks and whites became unconstitutional.
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Emmett Till Was 14 years old when he died. He was murded for flirting with a white woman four day before. The men that killed him made him carry a 75 pound cotton gin fan to a river. They beat him, gouged out his eyes, shot him in the head, and last tied him to the cotton gin fan with barbed wire and threw him in the river.
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Rosa Parks was an African American woman. She was sitting in a bus seat and refused to give her seat up to a white man that got on the bus. She was arrested.
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Nine African American students broke through the barrier and became the first balck students to attend Little Rock High School.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Wrote them. It was his defense on the civil rights.
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A rally to shed some light on African Americans struggles for jobs and freedoms.
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The act that ended segrigation in publics schools. Also ended dicriminaton in employment for race, religon, sex, color, or national origin.
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Malcom X was an African American nationalist and religous leader. He was Assassinated by rival black Muslims.
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Election of the first black president.
