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The NAACP was formed to gain overall equality for African Americans, and also to help remove racial prejudice
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The Scottsboro boys were falsely accused of rape by two white women. This lead to a series of trials just to prove their innocence.
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Jackie Robinson was the first African American baseball player and was the first to break the color barrier for baseball in 50 years.
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Case when Brown stated that racially segregated schools are not constitutional, even if they are equal.
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Emmett till was a 14-Year old African American boy from a racist attack.
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African Americans refused to ride the bus for over a year to boycott the racial segregation of the public transit system.
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This is a group of 9 African American students enrolled in Little Rock High School, and the Little Rock Crisis was a protest that prevented the students from entering the school due to white students preventing them from entering.
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Ruby Bridges was a African American child attending school and was walked to school everyday for a year by 4 Marshalls.
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Written by MLK, it is an open letter book.Very important to the Civil Rights era,
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This act prohibits the discrimination of Race, Sex, Color, National Origin, and later down the line covers Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation.
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Vocal spokesman for Islam, received death threats multiple times, finally assassinated in New York.
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Political organization created to challenge police brutality against the African American committee.
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Played a part as the first African American on the Supreme Court. Promoted racial equality. Argued 32 cases, and won 29 of them.
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American Civil Rights speaker for African Americans. His assassination was due to the murderer being a racist and him having towards hatred towards MLK.
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First African American as president. Proved to African Americans that they could do anything anybody else did.