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landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal"
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans
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Nation of Islam was mixed with religious points of Islam, including black prints and nationalism
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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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protest against policy of racial segregation on Montgomery transit system
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SOuthern Christian LEadership Cnference organized civil rights movement and its principles
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Nine black students enrolled in Little Rock school
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First federal civil rights legislation signed by Eisenhower
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee most significant organization of Civil Rights Movement
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Series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro North Carolina
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overturned judgement convicting African AMerican law student for trespassing by being in a restaurant
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7 blacks and 6 whites left DC goal was to test Boynton v Virginia
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Chaos broke out at the school when he tried to enroll
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Movement organizd in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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200,000 Americans gathered for political rally for jobs and freedom
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there was a prohibition on any poll tax in elections for federal officials
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volunteer campaign in US to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible
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Civil rights and US labor law that outlawed discriination based on race, color, religion, sex, etc
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Shot before he delivered a speech in New York on his new organization of African American unity
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landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting
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The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery.
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revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982, with international chapters operating in the United States
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a landmark part of legislation in the United States that provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, religion,
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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968
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On June 5, 1968, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after winning the California presidential primaries in the 1968 election, and died the next day while hospitalized