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The court decided on march 6th that africans enslaved or not could not become american citizens
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The war began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861
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The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed, abolishing slavery in the United States
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Congress passed a third Civil Rights Act in response to many white business owners and merchants who refused to make their facilities and establishments equally available to black people.
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colorado is the first state to grant women the right to vote.
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The U.S. Supreme Court "separate but equal" decision in Plessy v. Ferguson approved laws requiring racial segregation, as long as those laws did not allow for separate accommodations and facilities for blacks that were inferior to those for whites.
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Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization.
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The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed, granting women the right to vote.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus in Montgomery, Ala., to a white passenger, defying a southern custom of the time. In response to her arrest, the Montgomery black community launched a bus boycott that lasted over a year until the buses desegregated
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James Meredith became the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. President Kennedy sent 5,000 federal troops to contain the violence and riots surrounding the incident.
