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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was formed to advance justice for African Americans. -
Nine Black teenagers were falsely accused of raping two white women on a train, sparking a series of landmark legal trials. -
A white mob attacked residents and businesses of the African American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. -
Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. -
A landmark Supreme Court case that ruled racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. -
A 14-year-old Black boy was abducted and lynched in Mississippi after being accused of offending a white woman. -
A civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses to protest segregated seating. -
A group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School, testing the Brown v. Board ruling. -
Six-year-old Ruby Bridges became the first African American child to desegregate William Frantz Elementary School. -
An open letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. defending the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism. -
A massive protest for jobs and freedom where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. -
A landmark piece of legislation that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
The influential African American nationalist and religious leader was shot and killed in New York City. -
A law that outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War. -
A revolutionary organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton to monitor police activities and provide social services. -
Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African American justice to serve on the United States Supreme Court. -
The prominent civil rights leader was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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