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Plessy Vs Ferguson was a decision of the Supreme Court in 1896. It held the racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality
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The NAACP or National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was established in 1909 and is America’s oldest and largest civil rights organization.
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. Brown v. Board of Education was one of the cornerstones of the civil rights movement, and helped establish the precedent that “separate-but-equal” education and other services were not, in fact, equal at all. Thurgood Marshall was the defense lawyer for Debbie Brown
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a protest which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest seating. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man.
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The Little Rock School Integration were a group of African American students who attended a whites only school.
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Sit-ins began in North Carolina when four African American students went into a whites only department store lunch counter and asked to be served. The restaurant refused to serve them so instead of leaving, the students just sat there at the store until it closed. Over the next five days, they came in and did the same thing over and over again, just sat at the whites only counter and did school work.
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Freedom Riders were groups of white and African Americans who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals.
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The 24th Amendment of the US Constitution prohibits Congress and the states from establishing a Poll Tax during Federal elections.
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Birmingham, Alabama was of the most segregated cities in the South. A march was attempted by over 1000 African American students into downtown Birmingham from Selma, Alabama.
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The March on Washington was a protest march that happened in August 1963. 250,000 people gathered in front the Lincoln Memorial for jobs and freedom. It was also the occasion of Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech.
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The Civil Rights Act ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. JFK first proposed the plan, but Southern Congress members didn't agree and it wasn't until LBJ became president that the law was passed.
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The Selma to Montgomery march was a part of civil rights protests that happened in Alabama, a Southern state deeply involved racist policies. In effort to register black voters at that time, protesters marched the 54 mile route from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery
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President Lyndon B. Johnson aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Voting Rights Act is considered one of the most far-reaching pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S. history.
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Black Panther Party, original name Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, African American revolutionary party, founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The party’s original purpose was to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality.
