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signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_8802 -
American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson -
black students who enrolled at a all white Central High School
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/central-high-school-integration -
Truman signed this executive order establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=84 -
public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and it was unconstitutional
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=87 -
he was a young African american who got lynched in Mississippi (14 years old)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till -
13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on public buses
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/montgomery-bus-boycott -
organization primarily comprised of southern African American church leaders
https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-sclc-the-civil-rights-movement-definition-history.html -
nonviolent protest against a segregated lunch counter
https://www.britannica.com/event/Greensboro-sit-in -
Freedom Riders were brutally attacked by violent
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/today-in-labor-history-freedom-riders-attacked-in-alabama/ -
Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution -
African American man, attempted to enroll at the all-white University of Mississippi
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/ole-miss-integration -
Stand in the Schoolhouse Door took place at Foster Auditorium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_in_the_Schoolhouse_Door -
speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream -
It was a act of white supremacist terrorism African American 16th Street Baptist Church
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing -
it was a act signed into a law president Lyndon Johnson
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=97 -
Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent march
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/selma-montgomery-march -
act was signed into law outlawed the discriminatory voting https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=100
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equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment
https://www.britannica.com/event/Loving-v-Virginia -
civil rights leader was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
