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In this Supreme Court decision,they legalized segregation everywhere,from schools to water fountains.It was challenged by the movement because people knew it was wrong and were determined to put and end to segregation,and make sure that everyone had equal rights.
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The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of primarily African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II.
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MLB was integrated by Jackie Robinson who was famously known for it.After he integrated baseball,it was no longer just a white man sport.
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President Harry S. Truman signed this executive order establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, committing the government to integrating the segregated military.
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Sweatt v. Painter was a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. The case was influential in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education four years later.
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In the supreme court decision,they decide that the seperaate but equal act was unconstitutional,even if they were equal in standards.This caused all schools to be desegregated.
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While visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier.
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The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
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Governor Orval Faubus mobilized the Arkansas National Guard in an effort to prevent nine African American students from integrating the high school.
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established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote.
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young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service.
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bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals.
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the United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
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riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school.
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June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy federalized National Guard troops and deployed them to the University of Alabama to force its desegregation.
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This was the day where MLK Jr gave his,I have a Dream,speech.Once he finished speech of equality,he was awarded the Nobel Peace Trophey.
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The day that JFK came into Dallas,Texas he was assassinated in his car as they drove.Everyone heard some loud bangs and by the last one,JFK had fallen into the seat as his wife tried her best to pick up his brain matter from the ground.
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prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal
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On stage at the Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was gunned down as his pregnant wife and four daughters took cover in the front row. Three members of the Nation of Islam—Mujahid Abdul Halim, Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam—were soon after charged with first-degree murder
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State troopers and county possemen attacked the unarmed marchers with billy clubs and tear gas after they passed over the county line, and the event became known as Bloody Sunday.
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It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
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on Thursday, 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. News of King’s assassination prompted major outbreaks of racial violence, resulting in more than 40 deaths nationwide and extensive property damage in over 100 American cities.
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prohibits discrimination concerning the sale, rental, or financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, and sex.