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Established seperate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
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Sparked by Rosa Parks. A social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transportation system in Montgomery, Alabama
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James Meredith was allowed to go to Ole Miss after he was barred from the campus 10 days earlier
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When black college students tried sitting at the counter of a resteraunt to get food. When they sat down, all of the white people started to get mad and a riot broke out.
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On this day the Alabama stood in front of the school protesting integration. JFK forced integration that day.
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A 37 year old african american man named Medgar Evans was shot dead in his driveway for being a civil rights activist.
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Martin Luther King Jr gave a speach on civil rights in which he said to end racism in America.
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Was a voter registration drive, organized in Mississippi during the 1964 summer.
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These 3 men turned up missing in Mississippi on this day. They were later found dead do to gunshots from close range.
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An african american nationalist was assassanated by a rival black muslim group for proposing an Organization of African American Unity.
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Were laws enforced by Jim Crow that prohibited public discrimination in schools, resteraunts, and bank lending.
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Prohibits discrimanation in voting.
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A group of black people that joined together to help defend themselves and to promote Black Power
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11 member commission hired to investigate the 1967 riots.
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Martin Luther King Jr was assassanated at the Lorraine Motel for being a civil rights leader.
