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Segregation in public schools was fund to go against the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
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apolitical/social protest against the segregation on public transportation (in this case, buses) in Montgomery, Alabama.
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A group of African American students enrolled in the previously all white school, Central High School, in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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The bill was signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower. It prohibits discrimination based on race, religion, gender, or nationality.
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a non-violent protest that took place in Greensboro, North Carolina. It led to the ending the segregation and discrimination in the Woolworth Department Store.
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Riots began at the University of Mississippi has segregationists protested the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran.
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this was a symbol of George Wallace's effort to stop desegregation of schools.
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The March on Washington was a call for equality and freedom for all U.S citizens. The I Have a Dream Speech was delivered by Martin Luther King Jr, which became one of the most defining and iconic speeches in American History.
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a white supremacy terrorist bombing of a baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama.
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A volunteer campaign in attempt to register as many African Americans as possible.
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The law prohibits discrimination based on race, gender, nationality, etc.
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This law prohibited discriminatory voting practices based on gender, race, religion, nationality, etc.
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A black power organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton.
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Supreme Court banned laws that prohibited interracial marriages violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S Constitution.
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James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King in Memphis, Tennessee.