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Emancipation Proclamation
-Executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln
-Immediately freed 50,000 slaves -
Civil War Ends
Union Victory -
15th Amendment
-Prohibted each government of the U.S. from denying a citizens right to vote based on race or color. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
-Separate but Equal -
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka
- Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
- declared state laws establsing separate but equal public schools for black and white students unconstitutional
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Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Seat
- Refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man
- Arrested and convicted of violating Jim Crow Laws
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Little Rock Nine
- 9 African American students attended an all white school for the first time since Brown v. Board was overturned
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MLK gives "I Have a Dream Speech"
- 17 mimute speech in which Martin Luther King Jr. called for racial equality and an end to racial descrimination.
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Shot by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, TN