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US Supreme Court decision about racial segregation in public facilities. Outcome was "seperate but equal" facilites, but that never really happened.
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Ended racial segregation that did not allow African Americans to play baseball.
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President Truman abolished racial discrimination in the military, allowing African Americans to serve in it.
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US Supreme Court case in which seperate public schools for black and white students were declared unconstitutional.
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14 year old boy that was murdered after flirting with a white woman.
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Protests against the racial segregation in the public transportation system of Alabama.
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A group of nine African American students that were not allowed to attend their high school due to racial segregation policies.
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Series of protests that later caused department stores to end their racial segregation poilicies.
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Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses and eventually helped consider public transit segregation unconstitutional.
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A march by hundreds of school students downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation.
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One of the largest political ralies, and for African American economic rights.
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Outlawed all discrimination regardless of race, color, religion, or gender.
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3 men assassinated Malcolm X when giving a speech in Manhattan
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Marches in protest of racial injustice and voting rights.
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Prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
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Race riots in Los Angeles.
