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President Truman created a committee of Civil Rights. It was important because it gave blacks the same rights as whites
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President Truman Discrimination in the armed forces was banned
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Lynching has occurred all throughout our history and 1952 was the first year since 1881 without a lynching
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On May,17 1954 the supreme court declared segregation in schools to end, which allowed black children and white children to attend the same school
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Montgomery Bus Boycott began four days after Rosa Parks was arrested, the Montgomery Bus Boycott was started as a protest to show segregation on public buses
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January 10th-11th 1957 Martin Luther King became president of the Southern Christian leadership conference
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The SNCC was founded by Ella Baker, Diane Nash, Julian Bond, Bernard Lafayette, Charles Sherrod the SNCC stood for the student nonviolent coordinating committee
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The Freedom Riders in the South were arrested, the Freedom Riders were people who would freely ride interracial buses
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James Meredith’s attempt to attend Mississippi University was successful because of Federal troops being used
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The leader of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), Medgar Evers was assassinated
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Riots in Harlem, Chicago, Rochester, and Philadelphia, the riots included spray painting and the protesters looted several stores
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Malcolm X was assassinated, Malcolm X was a Muslim minister who was assassinated, he was assassinated on February 21st by Elijah Muhammad
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The concept of Black Power was introduced by Stokely Carmichael, Black Power was made to give black people political power
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A law used to say a white and black can't marry but state laws forbidding white and black marriage were declared unconstitutional by the supreme court
Cite: http://www.politifact.com/new-jersey/statements/2012/jan/15/sheila-oliver/sheila-oliver-says-16-states-prohibited-interracia/ -
Martin Luther King was assassinated, James Earl Ray (his assassin) was sentenced to 99 years prison but he denied he had something to do with the assassination
Cite: https://www.history.com/news/who-killed-martin-luther-king-james-earl-ray-mlk-assassination
