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Supreme Court decision ruling that public establishments have to be seperate but equal
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Was formed to create political, social, educational, and econimic equality.
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Supreme court ordered school segregration unconstitutional.
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14 year old boy flirted with a white grocery store cashier
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Protest against racial sefgregration on public transportation, by not using public transport.
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Students from the little rock nine, who where all african american students who enrolled to Little Rock Highschool in Arkansas, were prevented from entering the racially segregrated school by the governer of Arkansas, Orval Faubus.
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students from north carolina sit at a white only food counter at a diner and ask to be served. People didnt like that so they started to harass them and throw stuff at them.
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Civil Rights Activists rode on interstate buses in through the south to end segregration on busses.
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Riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi from students, staff, and locals; because of a veteran airforce pilot who was an african american attempted to regester in an all white university.
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Dangerous march in a racially divided city in alabama which ended in a bombing and police dogs and fire hoses injuring many people.
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Volunteer campain to gain voting rights for african americans in Mississippi.
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outlawed discrimination based on race, color, nationality, or gender.
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also called the 12th street riots consisted of looting arson and even sniping which started on Saturday night and continued in through the early morning and all through the week on the 27th. The result was 43 dead, 1,189 injured, over 7,200 arrests, and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed.
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Provided Equal housing opportunities regardless of race or national origin and made it into a federal crime to threaten, force injure, intimidate or interfere with anyone because of their race, color, or national origin.
