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Constitutional amendment bans any state from taking citizens of their rights and defines citizenship.
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Supreme Court said that separate but equal facilities for different races is legal.
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Arguing that gradual progress is the best path for blacks, Thinking job training, respect and help would bring opportunities
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W.E.B. DuBois demands racial equality and goes against all laws that treats blacks as different from others.
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NAACP challenges state laws that restricted black voting.
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Over 25 race riots occur in the summer of 1919 with 38 killed in Chicago.
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FDR sets up Fair Employment Practices Commission sets non-discrimination policies in federal hiring
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FDR allows 110,000 to be rounded up in western states
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Supreme Court rules that concentration camps were a wartime necessity
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Pasadena resident and UCLA alum Robinson breaks the color barrier by being the first black to play major league baseball.
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Pres. Truman issues executive order requiring integrated units in the armed forces
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Supreme Court stated that separate schools are by nature unequal. Schools are ordered to desegregate.
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Rosa Parks ignites 381-day bus boycott organized by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Over 100 southern members of Congress sign document attacking the Supreme Court decision.
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After Little Rock school board votes to integrate schools, National Guard troops prevent black children from attending school.
