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A civil rights organization in United States as a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W.E.B Du Bois.
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A black nationalist fraternal organization that was founded by Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Dedicated to racial pride, economic self-sufficiency, and the formation of an independent black nation in Africa.
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Signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, to prohibit ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation´s defense industry. It also set up the Fair Employment Practice Committee.
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Congress of Racial Equality is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Huey Percy Newton was a revolutionary African-American political activist who, along with fellow Merritt College student Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966
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An executive order by Harry S. Truman that abolished discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, or natural origin in Unites states armed forces.
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
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Emmett Till was a 14 year old African american boy who was lynched after being accused of offending a white woman in her family´s grocery store.
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference's (SCLC) main aim was to advance the cause of civil rights in America but in a non-violent manner.
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First day of classes at Central High, governor called in national guard to block black students from entry.
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The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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The Kenned-Nixon debate not only had major impact on election´s outcome, In a new era in which crafting a public image and taking advantage of media exposure became essential ingredients of a successful political campaign.
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Freedom Riders were brutally attacked by violent, well-armed and organized mobs of Klansmen and other terrorists in Anniston and Birmingham, Ala.
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The Children's March was a protest march by thousands of school students in Birmingham, Alabama, from May 2-5, 1963. They left school to march for civil rights.
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A public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.
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John F. Kennedy was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.
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The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders or the Mississippi Burning murders, involved three activists who were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi in June 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement.
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Three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery
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The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion, took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965. On August 11, 1965, Marquette Frye, an African-American motorist on parole for robbery, was pulled over for reckless driving.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Christian minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement until he was assassinated on his hotel balcony.
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Robert Francis Kennedy was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968.
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Southern Poverty Law Center is an American nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation.
