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court establish "separate but equal" doctrine in which segregation is legal as long as blacks facilities were equivalent to those of whites.
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- organization that fights through the courts to end segregation
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movie on how civil wars destroys a nation
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a case in which blacks are not allowed to buy a home were it is large population of whites living in that area.
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two white hobo women get nine black hobo adolescents prosecuted by saying that they were assulted by them.
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A black man who won four gold medals in running at the Olympics Games in Berlin
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Congress of Racial Equality -- organization dedicated to civil rights reform through nonviolent action
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Jackie Robinson breaks down color barriers and becomes the first African-American to play in the major baseball league.
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A case arguing wheather restrictive covenants were legal
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The intergration in arm forces order issued by President Harry S. Truman
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Supreme Court declares racial zoning unconstitutional
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decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students and denying black children equal opportunities
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Boy killed for whistling at a white women.
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African-American woman arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man
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boycott that resulted in the integration of Mongomery, Alabama's bus system
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Nine black students integrate Central High School in Little Rock
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civil rights protest where protesters sit at a lunch counter and refuse to move, and make buisness lose customers.
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protest in which both white and blacks rode interstate buses together to test whether southern states were complying to Supreme Court ruling
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First student to go to the University of Mississippi
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letter where MLK defends impatience of people in the civil rights movement
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protesters turn to children to continue the protest, but either way the children were still attacked
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Civil rights leader was shot right outside his house.
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protest on more than 250,000 people demonstrated in the nations capital for "jobs and freedom" and the passage ofcivil rights legislation.
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KKK bomed a Baptist Church in Birmingham killing four girls
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an act that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion or national origin
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U.S. citizens rights to to vote will not be denied for not having the ability to pay a poll tax or any other tax
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act outlawing tactics used to deny African Americans the right to vote
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on "Bloody Sunday" civil rights marchers in Selma, when on Edmund Pettus Bridge marcher got attacked by lawmen.
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the case in which restriction of inter racial marriage is declared unconstitutional
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Civil Rights activist shot and killed