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The act of him joining a white baseball team led a generation of African Americans to question the "separate but equal" statemetn and paved the way for the civil rights movement.
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One of the first major victories of the civil rights movemetn was that the supreme cour decied that the state law to separate blacks and whites in school, was unconstitutional.
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Governor Faubus ordered the national Guard to prevent black students from enrolling at the local Hight school.
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One of the contributers to the increase of civil rights was the Emmitt till incidient. Emmitt Till was a African American who was murded because he was flirting with a white girl.
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A social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama in which was a seminal event in the Civil Rights movement.
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While not the first sit-ins of the civil rights movement they were an instrumental action leading to increased national sentiment at a crucial period in black history.
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Civil rights activist who rode interstate buses into the southern United States which were segregated at the time.
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An African American man named James Meredith attempted enroll at the University of Mississippi.
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It was a effort to brin attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham. The movement was led by MLK, James Bevel and others.
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200,000 americans gathered in D.C. for a polticial rally known as the March on Washington. It was supposed to shed light on the political and social challenges that blacks continued to struggle with across the country.
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The civil Rights act prohibted the discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national orgin. It was a landmark of the Civil rights movement in the United States.
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This projct was just a port of a much larger project by several other civil rights groups to expand black voting in the south.
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This was one of three marches that were a part of the voting Rights movemetn underway in Selma, Alabama.
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The voting rights act was signed into a law by Lyndon Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented blacks from exercising theri right ot vote under the 15th Amendment.
