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This order ended racial discrimination in the U.S. Armed Forces, leading to the end of segregation there.
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The Supreme Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
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He was a 14 year old black male from Chicago who was murdered in Mississippi after flirting with a white woman.
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She refused to move out of her seat for a white passenger, and this along with the Montgomery Bus Boycott, became important symbols for the Civil Rights Movement.
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was formed on this date, they are an African-American civil rights organization.
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After nine black children were registered to go to a white school after the Brown v. Board of Education case, they could only get in after the intervention of Eisenhower.
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A series of non-violent protests which eventually led to the store removing the segregation policy.
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A civil rights group that organized sitting in at lunch counters and other protests at segregated public facilities such as libraries, parks, swimming pools, and movie theaters.
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These were led by civil rights activists who rode into the south in the 1960's to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia and Boynton v. Virginia which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.
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Led by MLK Jr., it was a nonviolent action where kids marched down the city streets and got attention from the white civil forces who arrested them.
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A letter written by MLK Jr. that said nonviolent resistance to racism is the right path. The summary of this was that they needed to gain equal civil rights with whites, and that people have a moral obligation to break unjust laws to get them removed.
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MLK Jr. gave an inspirational speech during the March on Washington that was a defining event in the American Civil Rights Movement.
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This is where MLK Jr. gave his "I Had a Dream" speech, where he rallied hundreds of thousands of people.
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It was an act of white supremacist terrorism at an African-American church.
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This amendment prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
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These civil right workers were shot by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
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It ended unequal use of voter registration requirements.
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After leaving the Nation of Islam group, he was assassinated by three of its members.
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It was a march at the Alabama State Capitol where the Alabama state troopers assualted the peaceful protesters.
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After black citizens in LA saw an arrest they believed was racially motivated they broke out into riots.
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It prevented buisnesses from discriminating in hiring on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or nationality.
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He was the first African-American student admitted to the University of Mississippi.
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This organization was a black revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States during the Civil Rights era.
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It ruled that prohibiting marriage between people classified as "white" and people classified as "colored" was unconstitutional.
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The Civil Rights leader was assassinated.
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It provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, religion, or nationality, and made it a federal crime to interfere with anyone by reason of their race, color, religion, or nationality.
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It limited the rights of employees who had sued their employers for discrimination.
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It was a series of riots, lootings, arsons and civil disturbance that occurred in Los Angeles.
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This role model of civil rights died.
