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On December 1st, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public buss to a white passenger. she got arrested, and because of this it started a bus boycott in Montgomery. The boycott continued for more than a year until the Supreme court upheld a ruling that segregated seating was unconstitutional.
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This Civil rights movement was to ban segregation in bus terminals and restrooms. The group of people who did this used the terminals of the opposite race.
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This march was a group of 250,000 people who gather peacefully in Washington and marched fro jobs and freedom to protest civil rights abuse and employment discrimination
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This Civil Rights movement was to gain more economic and human right for poor Americans. This campaign included NAtive Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, and etc -
The YLO was an organization created by Puerto Rican youth in Chicago which created a free breakfast program for kids and community health clinics -
this act was passed by congress in 1974 which was to make bilingual education more available in public schools. -
This was the first national march for lesbian and gay rights whic took place in Washington. It had 75,000- 125,000 people marching for LGBTQ rights
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Congress approved of the IRCA which provided legalization for undocumented workers.
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Hawaii's Judge Change rules that the state does not have the legal right to deprive same-sec couples the right to marry. This made Hawaii the first state to recognize that gay and lesbian couples are entitled to the same privileges. https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/04/us/hawaii-judge-ends-gay-marriage-ban.html
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On this day the first legal same sex marriage in the United States took place in Massachusetts. This was a positive and important things because it allowed for more states to allow this has do it legally.
