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Civil War ends, reuniting America. 13th amendment passed providing freedom to slaves throughout the nation
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15th amendment to the constitution bans the denial of suffrage. Still, blacks discouraged from voting via violence.
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Supreme court upholds segregation in private spaces via Plessy V Ferguson case.
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NAACP formed by black and white activists. Aims were racial integration and challenging Jim Crow laws
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NAACP focus on vigilante lynchings.
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Best shown by Black Panther Party, who were a violent response to KKK and also ran education and charity programs in black neighbourhoods
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Supreme court, in a case championed by the NAACP, ban segregation of schools
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America's first integrated school opens following Supreme Court Case
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In support of Rosa Parks, the bus boycott is organized
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High school accepts, to the distaste of white students, the governor and the Arkansas national guard, to accept 9 black students. Eisenhower intervenes, taking the guard under federal control and sending army in.
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Big figure: Stokely Carmichael.
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American universities began integrating students. Black students still faced abuse.
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Martin Luther King organizes march of Washington, playing a key role in the Civil Rights Act.
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Civil Rights Act proposed by JFK, passed into law with help of LBJ after Kennedy's death.
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Stopped prejudice in voting system.
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National Guard called in to calm unrest
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First African-American president of the USA.