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Centraly in Harlen, it was the first U.S. solidarity organization in support of African struggles against colonialism and apartheid. Ended in 1955.
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Alfred Kinsey publishes a book that reveals to the public that homosexuality is far more widespread than was commonly believed.
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When they took power, the racial discrimination in South Africa became law.
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President Truman desegregates the Army of the United States.
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This is the year that the man who will depict America as Hell on Earth is sent to America by his friends in hope of shrinking his radical ideas.
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Western styled nation around the northern Atlantic Ocean pledge to settle disputes among themselves peacefully and to defend one another against outside aggressors.
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Soviet Unoin officially has nuclear power.
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U.S. and other U.N. members fight North Korean forces.
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One of the foundations of legislative apartheid, with all the subsequent segregation legislation being based on the classification it established.
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The first national gay rights organization, is formed by Harry Hay.
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The founder of Al-Jihad and the second leader of Al-Qaeda is born.
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Requires natives South Africans to carry passports to enter selective "White" areas.
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Natives no longer need to carry a passport, but they do need to carry a book of many forms of their own identification which still limits them exponentially.
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Boarder between South and North Korean is reset and military from other nation leaves.
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Produced official segregation for natives and the seperate lace were deffinitely not equal.
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There are many reports of Qtub being tortured and deathly ill during his imprisonment.
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Supreme Court rules segregation of schools unconstitutional.
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Qutb becomes the editor of al-Ikhwān al-Muslimu gaining the ability to widely express his radical ideals, but it was shut down quickly becase of its negativity to the Egyptian goverment.
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The first lesian-rights organization in the United States is formed.
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The military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe.
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Refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man.
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A band is formed in Hamburg playing music that was considered out of the ordinary, but quickly gained popularity.
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The day the founder of Al-Qaeda is born.
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Those pro segregation in the south exerience the terror from the white public resisting desegregation in education.
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source It established the Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department, and empowered federal officials to prosecute individuals that conspired to deny or abridge another citizen's right to vote.
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An Africanist group who broke away from the African National Congress holds its first national meeting in Johannesburg at the Orlando community hall under the banner “Africanist Liberation Congress."
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An organization for the freedon of Pan-Africans dies with its leader, Dr Peter Ntsele.
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The birth control pill is released and aproved for contraceptive use.
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At least 180 black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on approximately 300 demonstrators, who were protesting against the pass laws.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee is founded to give young people an organization to fight for equality.
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Established investigation policies from the government to eliminate descrimination at the voting polls.
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source seven blacks and six whites left Washington, D.C., on two public buses bound for the Deep South. They intended to test the Supreme Court's ruling in Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional.
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Illinois becomes the first state in the U.S. to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults in private.
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Five white people are killed by Poqo members at Mbashe Bridge near Umtata while sleeping in caravans. This resulted in the arrest of 23 members of the organization who were sentenced to death and hanged.
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PAC member Jeff Kgalabi Masemola is charged together with 14 other people in the Pretoria Supreme Court with conspiracy to commit sabotage. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison.
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The now intrnational rock band is broadcasted to approximately 15 million people.
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Eliminates poll tax so then poorer citizens, mostly African American, are safely capable of voting.
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source Prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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With the Birth control pill now mass produced and gay rights slowly bt surely gaining popularity, sexual activity has become a more social norm and is now available without having to worry about children.
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Almost the entire educated national public collectively sets up organizd protests to protest against American actions in Vietnam.
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The United States sends battle-ready soldiers to Vietnam to fight the existing Communism.
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World's first transgender organization established in San Fransisco.
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Roughly 25,000 people gather on 5th Avenue to protest against America engaging in war.
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Qutb is executed for planning to overthrow the Egyptian government.
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10,000 people walk in New York City for love, peace, and freedom.
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The summer that 2,000 people migrated to Haight-Ashbury district in San Fransisco where they experimented with drugs, wore unconventional clothing, and listened to rock music and speeches by political radicals.
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A political party that was formed under the basis of being opposed to war. The Vietnam war was most specifically used by this group to gain votes for their nominies.
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US troops murder hundreds of unarmed South Vietnam civilians.
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source Prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin and sex.
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In Paris, French students nearly toppled the government of France with this strike that lasted many weeks.
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Founder member and former president of the PAC Robert Sobukhwe is released from prison and banished to Galeshewe in Kimberley.
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The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its official list of mental disorders.
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The United States troops begin to exit Vietnam and US involvement in Vietnam decreases exponentially.
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Communist forces take over South Vietnam
