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freed slaves
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the United States Constitution abolished slavery. However, Southern states managed to revive slavery era codes
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granted due process and equal protection under the law to African Americans.
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Homer Plessy jailed for sitting in a white car
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upheld an 1890 Louisiana statute mandating racially segregated but equal railroad cars. The ruling stated the equal protection
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was founded by a multi-racial group of activists in New York, N.Y. Initially, the group called themselves the National Negro Committee.
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he U.S. Supreme Court's unanimously ruled that public school segregation was unconstitutional and paved the way for desegregation.
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While visiting family in Mississippi, fourteen-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till was kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Two white men, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, were arrested for the murder
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Rosa Parks a black female did not want to give up her sit to a white male
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, comprised of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Charles K. Steele and Fred L. Shuttlesworth, was established. King was the organization's first president.
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which had originally been instituted in 11 southern states. The poll tax made it difficult for blacks to vote.
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