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the laws that made segregation legal in the south. https://www.britannica.com/event/Jim-Crow-law
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A very powerful civil rights organization that challenged segregation through court.
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African American Muslim minister and civil rights activist. Date below is his born date.
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Nonviolent activist for the civil rights movement.
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congress of racial equality. had an important role in the civil rights movement for African Americans.
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Ruled that segregation in schools was unconstitutional.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference, civil rights organization for African Americans.
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A group of nine African-American students that were the first African-American's to go to the public school. Very controversial, troops had to be sent in to protect the nine.
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Four African-American men sat down in a segregated diner and requested service, they were turned down but refused to leave and make a stand.
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. An organization that trained students how to hold productive non-violent protests. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee
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Proposed a civil rights bill, was assassinated before it was made.
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Segregationists were protesting the enrollment of student, James Meredith, into Ole Miss because he was African American.
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Created the Civil rights Act which prohibited any public signs of discrimination.
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Abolition of poll taxes.
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Law that prohibited discrimination based on race, gender, religion, etc.
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Prohibited racial discrimination in voting.
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The Black Panther Party was a political group made by Huey Newton and another guy to protect African Americans from brutality, that from police specifically.
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Carmichael, chairman of the SNCC, popularized the term and philosophy of ¨Black Power.¨
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The national advisory commission on civil dsorders, later named Kerner after its chairman.
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Assassinated outside a hotel he was staying in in Memphis, TN
