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Civil rights organization that played an important role in the Civil Rights Movement
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Courts declared that the state laws in which established seperate public schools for black and white students was unconstitutional
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Young African American teen lynched in Mississippi becauuse he was reported for flirting with a white woman
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Rosa Parks was told to give up her seat on the bus for a white man and refused to do so. She was sent to jail because of this and the bus boycott was initiated by King and Ralph Abernathy and they demanded for equal rights for blacks on public transportation
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Fought the Jim Crow laws and the segregation that it put in place
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made up of a group of young people who led the sit-in movement
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MLK wrote to the men of Congress and explained all the terrible hardships that African Americans had faced
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MLK gave a speech about his hopes and aspirations for all races and equality
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Bombing of the church as an act of racial discrimination
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The right for citizens to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President
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Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
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Shot by Elijah Muhammed 15 times
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State troopers violently attacked peaceful demonstrators in an attempt to stop the march for voting rights
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Signed by President Johnson. This law aimed for the rights African Americans to excercise their voting rights
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Prohibits federal contractors and federally-assisted construction constractors and subcontractors, who do over $10,000 in Government business in one year from discriminating in employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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A revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization
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Active individual in the Civil Rights Movement and the Pan-African Movement
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MLK was shot by James Earl Ray
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Prohibited the discrimination unto African Americans