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landmark United States Supreme court decision upholding the constitutionality of state law requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal"
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teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age 14 after reportedly flirting with a white women
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a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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A seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery Alabama
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Four students from North Carolina A & T sit down at a "whties-only" Woolworth's lunch counter and asked to be served.
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Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated deep south United States in 1961.
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Volunteer campaign in the United States launched to attempt register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi which had historically excluded most blacks from voting.
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landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination base on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
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Violent public disorder that turned into a civil disturbance in Detroit, Michigan
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