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The Supreme Court ruled that separation of the races in public accommodations was legal, thus establishing the "separate but equal" doctrine.
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This was an organization put together to promote full racial equality
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White workers were furious when black workers were hired to replace them while on strike.
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A case in which the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" education for black & white students was unconstitutional.
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African-Americans started taking direct action to receive the rights that they were deserved. African-Americans refuse to ride the buses for 381 days.
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Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to white man when asked by the bus driver.
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A 14-year-old African American was accused of flirting with a white women.
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A form of demonstration used by African Americans to protest discrimination, in which the protesters sit downs in segregated business & refuse to leave until they are served.
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Civil Rights activist who rode buses through the South to challenge segregation.
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De Jure was racial separation established by law & De Facto was racial separation established by practice & custom, not by any law.
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More than 250,000 people march on Washington to demand immediate passage of the civil rights bill
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This was a law that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex (gender), national origin, or religion in public places & most workplaces
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Abolition of Poll Taxes
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A law that made it easier for African Americans to register to vote by eliminating discriminatory literacy tests & authorizing federal examiners to enroll voters denied at the local level.
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He urged his people to fight back & take complete control over their communities.
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A militant African-American political organization formed by Huey Newton & Bobby Seale to fight police brutality & to provide services in the ghetto.
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People marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight folr voting rights.
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He was the first African-American justice of Supreme Court.
