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Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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The Citizens' Councils were an associated network of white supremacist, extreme right, organizations in the United States, concentrated in the South.
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In Brown II, the Supreme Court also set out rules about what schools needed to do to de-segregate. Finally, it explained how the United States government would make sure the schools did de-segregate
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A 14-year-old boy was lynched after flirting with a white girl and was beaten brutally till death and thrown into a river.
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Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama Dec 20, 1956
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An African American civil rights association that is heavily associated with Martin Luther King Jr.
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The President sends troops to Little Rock along wiht national guard becouase of racial tensions
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced /snɪk/ SNIK) was one of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s.
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The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina
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A desegregation campaign formed on November 17, 1961, in Albany, Georgia.
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Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States
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That no State may require racial segregation of interstate or intrastate transportation facilities has been so well settled that it is foreclosed as a litigable issue
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Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama.
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President Kennedy, in sending military riot-control units to bases near Birmingham, said this Government will do whatever must be done to preserve order, to protect the lives of its citizens, and to uphold the law
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Prohibition of sex discrimination which was signedinto law on June 10, 1963, by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program.
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NAACP and civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated after coming home from Jackson.
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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington was held in Washington, D.C.
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Assassinated at 12:30pm Dallas, Texas while driving a presidential vehicle in a plaza.
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Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive sponsored by civil rights organizations including the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
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Three activists that were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
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An act which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, and sex.
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Was shot while giving a speech at one of his rallies by a crowd member.
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The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery.
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Prohibits voting discrimation.
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A black activist political group that fought for black rights
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It allowed interracial marriages to be lawful and was a major feat for civil rights.
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Series of riots due to racial tension
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The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street riot was the bloodiest race riot in the "Long, hot summer of 1967"
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Civil Rights Leader was shot in a motel in Memphis and was declared dead at 7:05 pm
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42-year-old presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was mortally wounded shortly after midnight PDT at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
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400 U.S marshalls sent to Montgomery Bus Riots.
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