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the supreme court issued in 1896 that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws .
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a biracial organization to advance justice for African Americans
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an organization that the untied states that played a pivotal role for african americans in the civil rights movement
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President Truman signed this executive order establishing the president's committee on equality.
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Was largely credited with the groups dramatic increase in membership
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court declares state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional
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Emmit Till was taken away from his uncles house beaten and mutilated then was shot in the head and sunk in the Tallahatchie river.
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a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation
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a group of nine African American students enrolled in little rock central high
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American rights civil rights organization closely associate with martin luther king jr
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The student voice movement
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Civil rights activist who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern united states
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A public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr
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also known as Mississippi summer project a volunteer campaign launched to attempt to register as many African Americans to vote in mississippi as possible
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The civil rights act ended segregation in public places
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prohibits racial discrimination in voting
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they took place in Los Angeles watts riots were blamed principally on police rasism
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King was staying in room 309 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis and was shot through the window he was imedeatly rushed to the hospital and then pronounced dead
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Boston public schools under court control to desegregate through a system of busing students
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The right of any American citizen to vote in any primary election
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the jury acquitted three officers but couldn't on a charge the men who beat ridney king dnt deserve to wear the uniform lapd