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This law states that segregation of public schools violates the 14th Amendment.
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Rosa Parks refused to give her seat away to a white person and was arrested because of this action.
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Blacks would come together to protest against riding buses to support the actions of Rosa Parks.
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This was aimed at African Americans especially but gave all citizens the right to vote.
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9 African Americans were being harassed by the racially segregated students of the school after Congress passed the 14th Amendment. This President decided to step in and sent in bodyguards for the African Americans.
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Over 5,000 students marched to the mayor of Birmingham to talk about segregation.
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Martin Luther King Jr. made the most famous speech ever known, emphasizing segregation.
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Medgar Evers, a 37-year-old civil rights activist, was shot and killed on the stairs of his house.
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A terrorist group which consisted of white supremacists, bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Signed by President Lyndon Johnson, it prohibited discrimination in public places, allowed different races to be integrated into schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal.
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This prohibited the procedures previously needed to vote and allowed voting for all citizens no matter their color or race.
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3 men were convicted of ambushing and fatally shooting Malcolm X while he was delivering a speech.
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An organization that was created for Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality.
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This states that laws that ban interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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MLK was beloved by many, especially by the black community, but was assassinated and caused a huge outbreak of distrust among the blacks.