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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war | Legally freed all sllaves in he U.S
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Forbids any state of depriving American Citezens of their rights and priveleges.
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Cesar Chavez was a Civil Rights activist most commonly associated with Latinos/Hispanics.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. is important because he was a Civil Rights Movement Leader and is most famous for his "I have a Dream" speech.
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John Lewis was important because he was one of the big 6 leaders of the Civil Rights Movements
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Voting for everyone was approved. Many blacks started voting(including other monorities) and the vote registration increased.
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Rosa Parks of refused to give up her seat to a white bus rider, thereby defying a southern custom that required blacks to give seats toward the front of buses to whites.
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Four freshmen at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College began a wave of student sit-ins designed to end segregation at southern lunch counters. These protests spread rapidly throughout the South and led to the founding, in April 1960, of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which many people joined.
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The head of Missisippi NAACP is shot outside of his home. This was the same night that president John F. Kennedy addressed the nation on race.
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More than 200,000 American gatherd in Washington to rally. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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You did not have to pay a fee to vote. Before this amendment was passed, people had to pay a poll tax to vote.
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On March 7 an SCLC planned march from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery.Police quickly put a stop to it using riot weapons.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. on March 9 turned back a second march to the Pettus Bridge when it was blocked by the police.This was the second march following the first march on March 7/
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My Father was born on November 18, 1970
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My Mother was born on March 6, 1973
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I was born on August 2, 2002 best known as "World-wide Savage Day"
