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A case in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation is legal. "Separate but equal."
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Civil Rights organization to fight the Jim Crow segregation.
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United States Supreme Court established that separate public schools for black and whites was unconstitutional.
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When segregation split into 2 different forms. De jure segregation is separation enforced by law. De Facto segregation is decided on individuals preferences.
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Brutally murdered at the age of 14 for talking to a white woman.
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A protest that segregation on public buses are unconstitutional.
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A civil rights activist that refused to give up her seat to a white man on the bus--which started the Montgomery Bus Boycott march. She's known as the " the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of freedom movement".
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African American minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader of the nonviolent Civil Rights movement and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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Nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School and were prevented from a racially segregated school by the governor.
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4 African American students sat down at a whites only restaurant.
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Mass racial violence towards all races.
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Activist rode interstate buses to the segregated South states.
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A large political rally for jobs, freedom, civil and economic rights for African Americans.
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A movement organized by Southern Christian Leadership Conference to recognized the integration efforts of African Americans
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Abolished the poll tax for all federal elections.
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Landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the united states that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, sex, or national origin.
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American Muslim minister and human rights activist
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Martin Luther Kings led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators for a 54 mile--from Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights
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Law signed to let African Americans vote.
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A party that believed in self-defense against the Jim Crow laws.
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The first African American that was the 96th Associate Justice in the Supreme Court of the United States. Also helped the Brown vs. Board of Education.
