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Case which created segregation. Made the phrase seperate but equal.
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Disolved segregation and made integration.
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Black boy who was lynched for whistleing at a white woman
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After Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man she was arrested. This caused a boycott by African-Americans.
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Nine black students attended an all white school. This caused severe community backlash.
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All Americans could exercise their right to vote.
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When civil rights activists rode interstate busses where segregation was enforced.
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First Black man to go to an all white college.
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President and civil rights activist John F. Kennedy is assassinated during a parade.
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Prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
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Ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public
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Civil rights leader Malcolm X is assassinated before giving a speech.
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Several civil rights marches. The first ended in police attacking protestors with hoses, batons, tear gas, and police dogs.
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Act that outlawed all Jim Crowe laws placed in the south.
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Pastor and civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated while leaving his motel room.
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Provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed, or national origin
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US senetor and civil rights activist Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated after a press conference in a hotel.
