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The 15th Amendment is ratified giving African - Americans the right to vote.
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Jefferson Franklin becomes the first african-american congressman in the state of Georgia, he was a former slave, and held office for 23 years.
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Homer Plessy was jailed for being in a "white" car of the East Lousiana Railroad. The Plessy decision set the precedent that "seperate" facillaties for blacks and white were constitutional as long as they were "equal."
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Washington delivered his Infamous Atlanta Compromise speech, in this speech he declared his support of segregation. He also stated in his speech that the african-american race is content with living socially seperate yet "united in all things essential to mutual progress"
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W.E.B DuBois founded the Niagra Movement which is used to protest Booker T. Washington's Policy of Accomodation to white society. The Niagra Movement went with a more radical approach which called for immediate equality in all american life.
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Marcus Garvey Created the UNIA to promote the spirit of race pride and to create and unity among blacks across the nation.
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The Harlem Renaissance was a literary, artistic and intellectual movement that gave african americans a new cultural identity.
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Trumen signed the executive order 9981 which states "It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin."
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Brown V. Board of Education In Topeka, Kansas declares that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the colored section on a bus to a white man because the white section was filled and was charged with a violation of Chapter 6 Section 11 segregration law of the Montgomery city code.
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The freedom riders was a group of student activists. They began from Washington D.C to the southern states. Student Volunteers were bused in to test new laws prohibing segregation. They were sentenced 90 days in jail for not paying a $200 fine for damaging a breach at the recently passed breach of the peace statue.
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While attending Sunday Service 4 girls were blown up in a church bombing, 14 others were injured. Three former Ku Klux Klan members were convicted of murder.
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Martin Luther King Jr was arrested following a non-violent protest against discrimination, police said the reason for his arrest was "demonstrating without a permit" he was in jail for 11 days.
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President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibits the discrimination on the basis of color, race, religion & sex or national origin.
