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It was a segregation court case, for separating races of public accommodations.
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This organization was founded for African Americans.
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This case had included a black father and his young daughter not being able to go to a white elementary school 4 blocks from her house while the colored elementary school was 21 blocks away.
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Marshall was the first African American to serve in the United States Supreme court. He was counsel in the NAACP and won the case Brown v. Board of Education which ended racial segregation in schools.
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De facto segregation exists by practice and custom. It can be harder to fight than de jure. Eliminating it requires changing peoples attitudes rather than repealing laws.
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Emmett was a 14 year old African American boy who was visiting family and reportedly flirted with a white female. A few days later the girls father and another family member kidnapped and killed Emmett. His death provided a catalyst for the American Civil Rights movement.
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An African American women named Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat for a white man. Blacks decided to boycott the bus after the situation during her court date.
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Rosa Parks was an African American women who refused to give up her seat for a white man which started the boycotting of the buses and that led to the lifting of segregation on public buses.
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African American students known as little rock 9 went to Central High school in little rock. A white mob gathered around while the governor prevented the kids from entering the school.
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African American protesters sat down at white lunch counters and denied to get up and leave. The stores raised the price of foods and removed the seats.
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200 angry white males attacked bus number 2. The mob followed the activists out of town and flung a bomb in the bus but the members of bus got out in time
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Abolished the poll tax for all federal elections.
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This was series of lunch counter sit-ins boycotting for segregation laws.
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The march on Washington was a march for jobs and freedom. This march was one of the biggest political rallies for human rights for African americans.
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In New York City there was an encounter between white police and African American teenagers which ended in the death of a 15 year old student. This event sparked a race riot in central Harlem. More race Riots throughout the years happened.
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This act forbade discrimination on the bases of sex as well race in hiring, promoting, and firing.
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Malcolm was an African American leader who was a spokesmen for the nation of Islam. He combined Blacks and Islam he grew tired of non-violent, integrated struggle for civil rights and was worried blacks would lose control of there own movement.
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The protesters who were attempting to march from selma to the capital of Montgomery were met by violent resistance by local and state authorities.
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This act was supposed to eliminate the literacy tests that disqualified many voters from voting.
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This organization was known to fight police brutality in the ghetto. It advocated self-sufficiency for African American communities and full employment as well as housing.
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Martin Luther King called his brand of non-violent resistance "soul force". King based his ideas on the teachings of several people. He took Thoreau's concept of civil disobedience. Randolph he learned to organize massive demonstrations. From Gandhi he learned to resist oppression without violence.
