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Civil Rights Movement
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Civil War Starts
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Emancipation Proclamation Was Signed
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Civil War Ended and Slavery is Abolished
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Goverment allows all blacks to be citizens
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Allowed the right to vote not to be judged on race
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Lynchings
Between this time and the turn of the century about 2500 lynchings occured against African Americans and the majority of them having taken place in the south. -
Plessy VS. Ferguson case determined that seperate but equal was constitutional
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Jackie Robinson
He becomes the first African-American to play major league baseball. -
Brown VS. Board of Education Court Case
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Alabama
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded
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The March On Washingto DC and the "I Have a Dream" speech took place
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Civil Rights act was put into action by Lyndon B. Johnson
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Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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Malcolm X was killed in New York
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Voting Rights Act was passed
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Martin Luther King Jr. was killed