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Around 20 Africans were taken from a portuguese slave ship and were brought on an english warship, white lion headed to Virgina.
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First time women are allowed to serve in a jury.
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A document was created by our founding fathers to establish the ideas that all men would be free and equal.
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Slaves could now be represented as three-fifths of a person.
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Mississippi is ther very first state to allow women to hold property in their name with their husbands permission.
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Very first gathering for women's rights in the U.S.
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The court decided that all African Americans would not be conciderd a citizen and could not sue anyone in the federal court.
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The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the confederacy.
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The oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Union soldiers came to Texas with new that the war was over and the slaves were now free.
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Slavery was abolished.
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All african americans and all males got the same rights as white males
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Allows equal protection under the law to African Americans
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Esther Morris led the first successful state campaign for woman suffrage
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Lets african americans vote
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Gives african americans rights to all public accommodations such as transportation
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This treaty was to keep the chinense from returning to the U.S.
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Over onehundred black women clubs meet up to have a convention.
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Margaret Sanger opened the clinic and ten days later she was arrested by an undercover woman cop
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Guaranteed all American women the right to vote.
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President Truman signs executive order 9981 which allows fair treatment and equality in armed service
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Court case that decided that having seperate schools for black and white people is unconstitutional.
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Regional council of negro leadership activist george w Lee is killed.
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The University of oklahoma allows black students.
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Georgia board of education fires all black teachers who are members of NAACP
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Emmett Till is killed for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to go to the "colored" section and was arrested. This started a boycott that lasted over a year.
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9 kids are blocked out from going to school by a governor. Eisenhower sends the national guard to help the 9 kids which later on are know as little rock 9.
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James lawson was expelled for participating at a sit in at vanderbilt university.
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The first sit in in houston, texas southern university that the students led.
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51 people were arrested at atlanta’s rich's department store sit in, one of which was MLK Jr
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The freedom ride bus was on its way to Alabama when it was attacked and the people on the bus were beaten.
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A deal was made to desegregate the city of Birmingham and hire more black employees in businesses and city government. Bombs exploded in the city which cuased deadly riots.
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Martin luther king jr I have a dream speech
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Malcom X was assassinated while giving a speech In Aashington Hights.
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Voting act of 1965 makes it easier for southern african americans to vote without literacy tests and poll taxes.
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A cafe in Compton didn't want to be known for having transgenders so they would call the police and have them clear them out. Transgenders took a stand and rioted.
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James meredith starts a march against fear from Memphis to Jackson and was shot shortly after he began.
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Martin Luther King jr gives an anti vietnam war speech called beyond Vietnam.
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Martin Luther King Jr was assasinated
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The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its official list of mental disorders.
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It was decided that a woman has the right to decide with consult of her doctor if she can go through with abortion.
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Elaine Noble becomes the first openly gay person to be elected state legislator in Massachusetts State House of Representatives.
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Harvey Milk is elected city-county supervisor in San Francisco and becomes the third “out” elected public official in the United States.
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75,000 people from all over the country participated in the first National march for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
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Race riots start in Los Angeles because four white police officers were not charged for beating an African American man with video taped proof.
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Homosexuality is removed from the International Statistical Classification of Diseases by the World Health Organization.
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Allows gays to surve without being asked their sexual orientation.
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Presidfent Barak Obama was elected president
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Ban on women serving in combat roles is lifted gradually.
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Same-sex couples have the fundamental right to marry and states cannot say that marriage is reserved for heterosexual couples in all of the United States.
