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A Supreme Court decision which allowed segregation in “separate but equal” facilities.
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An organization of lawyers led by Thurgood Marshall to try to overturn the Supreme Court decision of Plessy v. Ferguson.
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They argued that segregation of black children in the public schools was unconstitutional because it violated the 14th Amendment's guarantee of “equal protection of the laws.”
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, sparking a massive African American protest in the form of a boycott of the city buses.
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference formed by Martin Luther King Jr. which organized ministers and churches in the South to get behind the civil rights struggle.
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The first occasion since Reconstruction that the federal government undertook significant legislative action to protect civil rights.
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Nine African American students enrolled in all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, testing a landmark that U.S. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional.
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College students in Greensboro, North Carolina, started a sit-in movement after being refused service at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter.
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee which kept the college sit-in movement organized.
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A Supreme Court case that overturned a judgment convicting an African American law student for trespassing by being in a restaurant in a bus terminal which was for "whites only".
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This African American man attempted to enroll at the University of Mississippi, causing many riots and wounded people.
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A series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals.
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A movement organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama.
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200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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This amendment prohibited any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
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A volunteer campaign launched to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi.
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Outlawed the discrimination based on race, religion, sex, or origin, which was a major landmark in United States history.
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The most controversial voice of the Civil Rights Movement who used black violence to counter white violence and advocated self-defense.
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Influential leader of the Civil Rights Movement is assassinated by black opponents.
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Protest marches along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery.
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This act, persuaded by MLK Jr. to Congress, ended literacy tests and provided federal registrars in areas where blacks were kept from voting.
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A revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization led by Huey P. Newton.
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African American activist who was a major leader in the Civil Rights Movement, was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee.
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Provided equal housing opportunities to all races and made it a crime to force, threaten, injure, and intimidate anyone, regardless of race, origin, and religion.
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This presidential candidate was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after winning the California presidential primaries in the 1968 election.
