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Court Case that went through to the Supreme Court and legalized Racism.
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A Supreme Court Justice. Greatest achievement was winning the Brown vs. Board of Education case.
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Supreme Court ruled the "separate but equal" education for black and white students was unconstitutional.
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Largest Civil Rights organization who was led by MLK and helped create the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1964, and 1968, as well as the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Emmett Till was a 14 year old who was murdered in Money, Mississippi which sparked the Civil Rights movement.
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Rosa Parks was coming home from work and sitting in the "white section when a white man was looking for a seat in the "white" section and they were all taken. The police assessed the situation and put Parks in custody.
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After Rosa Parks incident. African Americans stopped riding the bus because they were being treated unfairly.
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9 African American boys who were allowed to enrolled in a all white high school. But the people at the schools did not let them in.
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All of these people had a strong opinion on something and tried to fight for that thing being the "right thing."
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African American protesters sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until they were served.
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African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam. Also he articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Civil Rights activists that rode buses into segregated southern United States.
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One of the most influential desegregation campaign took place. Birmingham, Alabama was a citadel for white supremacy and it was never safe for a African American to live there.
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One of the largest political rallies for human rights in U.S. history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans. On that day MLK gave the "I have a Dream" speech.
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Prohibits any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
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Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex or national origin.
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African American men and women were beaten with billy clubs in a cloud of tear gas. All they were trying to do was march from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, the state capital, to protest a brutal murder and the denial of their constitutional right to vote.
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Law that made voting easier for African Americans to register to vote by eliminating discriminatory literacy tests and authorizing federal examiners to enroll voters denied at local level.
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De Jure segregation is segregation by lax, very unequal. De Facto segregation is segregation but equal.
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The Panthers practiced self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government and fought to create revolutionary socialism.
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African Americans were living in terrible conditions and treated very poorly which resulted in riots to demand equal rights.
