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A 14 year old African American boy was lynched after attempting to flirt with a white woman. He was beaten, mutilated and shot before being dumped into the Tallahatchie River.
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Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks in December, 1955, the boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the US Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
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A group of 9 African American students that enrolled in a previously all white school, after President Eisenhower intervened. It was part of a plan to desegregate schools by Virgil Blossom.
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It began as a student meeting organized by Ella Baker. It eventually grew into a big organization with many Northern supporters. They were primarily just a group of students who openly protested against segregation.
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These were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States, in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the decision that ruled that segregated public buses are unconstitutional.
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James Meredith is a Civil Rights Movement figure. In 1962, he became the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi.
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In 1963, activists launched one of the most influential campaigns called Project C. It was the beginning of a series of lunch counter sit-ins, marches on City Hall and boycotts on downtown merchants to protest segregation laws in the city.
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A letter from Martin Luther King Jr. that addressed to his fellow clergymen after his nonviolent protest against racial segregations. He upheld that general use of nonviolent civil disobedience against unjust laws.
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Around 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington DC for a political rally. Organized by civil rights activists, the event was designed to shed some light on political and social challenges African Americans continued to face in the country.
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In 1964, civil rights organizations organized a voter registration drive, known as the Mississippi Summer Project. Its objective was to increase voter registration in Mississippi.
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Malcolm was a human rights activist, and a courageous advocate for the right of blacks. He promoted black supremacy, advocated the separation of black and white Americans and rejected the civil rights movement for their emphasis on integration.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public.
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During March 1965, protesters attempted to march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery, and were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities. As the world watched, they finally achieved their goal, after walking three straight days.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibits racial discrimination in voting. Signed by Lyndon B Johnson, it was later amended by Congress to expand its protections.
