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Portuguese negotiates the first slave trade agreement.
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European traders brought the first slaves from Africa
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Pennsylvania amends law to stop the removal of blacks from the state.
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Britain abolishes slavery in its colonies
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Declaration of Sentiments was signed by 68 women and 32 men. 12 resolutions are adopted which call for equal treatment for women and men.
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Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.
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The first National Women’s Rights Convention takes place in Worcester, Massachusetts. Has over 1,000 events.
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Plessy V Ferguson
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Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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The federal woman suffrage amendment is passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote, is signed into law by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby.
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Federal Government officially recognizes native americans as citizens of the U.S.
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Indian Reorganization Act was passed seeking to protect Native Americans from losing their land
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Native Americans were sent to “Special Schools” specifically for Native Americans living on foundations
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National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) was formed by 100 Indians and was designed to monitor federal policies.
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Victory in the Mendez v. Westminster Supreme Court case.
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Lesbian-rights organization in the United States called Daughters of Bilitis was created in San Francisco.
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In montgomery Alabama December 1 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man and was arrested after the bus driver called the police. She was fined which caused a national bus boycott by black people. This caused a desegregation of the buses in Montgomery Alabama.
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Three years after the supreme court ruled that segregated education was unequal September fourth nineteen fifty seven a white mob gathered in front of the school, and the national guard prevented the students from entering September 23 1957 they entered the school through a side entrance with police escorts September 25 the president ordered the army to protect the students on their way to and from school.
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United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, led by Cesar Chavez is initiated as an independent organization in Delano, California.
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Congress passed the Equal Pay Act, making it illegal for for employers to pay a woman less than a what a man would receive for the same job.
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On this day the Ku Klux Klan used dynamite to blow up the African American sixteenth street Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama. It was a black congregation and a meeting place for civil rights leaders
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Black people were not allowed to vote in a small town so they protested by marching. A black boy was fatally shot. Six hundred people marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama and were stopped by state troopers who threw tear gas and beat them.
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The beginning of the Delano Grape Strike and Boycott. Hispanics and Filipinos joined together to get better pay and work conditions.
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Rodolfo Acuña starts teaching the first Mexican American history class in Los Angeles, California.
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Cesar Chavez and the National Farm Workers Association march from Delano to the California state capitol in Sacramento.
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Reies Lopez Tijerina conducts an armed raid in Tierra Amarilla on the Rio Arriba County Courthouse.
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A act was passed giving native americans civil rights that they had been fighting for a long time to receive.
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The grape boycott was a success. Table grape growers at long last signed their first union contracts. Giving workers better pay, benefits, and protections.
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Activists marched across the country known as the “Trail of broken treaties” and they took over the bureau of Indian Affairs protesting the government's failure to address past treaty responsibilities to various indian nations.
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The American Indian movement also led a spiritual walk to Washington D.C. to draw attention to anti-indian legislation, leading congress to pass American Indian Religious Freedom Act and eventually passage of the Indian Civil Rights Act.
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Unhappy with the governance of tribal president Richard Wilson, activists occupied the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and had a violent standoff with the FBI, U.S. Marshal, and National Guard.
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The Supreme Court establishes a woman's right to safe and legal abortion, overriding the anti abortion laws of many states.
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The Pregnancy Discrimination Act bans employment discrimination against pregnant women.
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Wisconsin becomes the first state to outlaw discrimination on sexual orientation.
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This act attempted to limit the act that lets the government infringe upon religious freedom
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Vermont became the first state in the country to legally recognize gay marriage.
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On September 11 2001 Eugene Oregon an Islamic cultural center was received a threatening phone call
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On September 12 2001 in Salt Lake City Utaha Pakistani American family’s house was set on fire.
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On September 13, 2001 in Chicago Illinois a food store owned by Arab Americans was received bomb threats
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On September 13 2001 a Muslim student was assaulted and verbally harassed by a white student in Bloomington Indiana.
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On September 15 2001 in Mesa Arizona a 49 year old Sikh was fatally shot outside a gas station
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On September 15 2001 in Dallas Texas a 46 year old Pakistani American was shot to death
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On September 18 2001 in Fort Worth Texas a student of Indian descent was threatened and harassed
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same sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts
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In September 2004 in Berkeley, California eight female Muslim students were called out with racial slurs and pelted with water bottles
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Civil unions became legal in Connecticut
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Civil unions become legal in New Jersey
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In July 2007 on a beach on Lake Tahoe a family of American Indians were beaten by two people and called racial slurs like relatives of Bin Laden.
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The House of Representatives approves a bill ensuring equal rights in the workplace for gay men lesbians and bisexuals.
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In October 2008 a ten year old Sikh was assaulted on his way home from school in Wayne, New Jersey.
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President Obama signs a referendum allowing the same-sex partners of federal employees to receive benefits.
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Washington becomes the seventh state to legalize gay marriage.
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On September 11 in Ronkonkoma New York 2001 an Arab American man was held at gunpoint and threatened
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On September 12 2001 in South Huntington New York a Pakistani woman was the targeted for being run over by a car.
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On September 13 2001 in Somerset California a convenience store owned by Arab Americans had a cocktail tossed at it.
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In February 2015 3 Muslim American students were murdered at the University of Chapel Hill in North Carolina.
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The Supreme Court had two days of historical debate over gay marriage
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On October 4 in Mesquite Texas a 49 year old Indian was murdered at a gas station.
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In November a 67 year old man was beaten continuously in Wayne, New Jersey
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In February 2016 in Indiana 3 Muslim American men were murdered, a 23 year old, a 20 year old, and a seventeen year old.
