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Black Panther Party
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An effort to bring attention to African Americans in Birmingham.
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After Brown v Board of Education, in difference with de facto and de jure.
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Upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilties under the doctrine of separate but equal.
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Ended legal segregation, and was 96th Supreme Court Judge, and first African American justice.
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Activist in the Civil Rights movement. Nicknamed "First Lady of Civil Rights, and "The Mother of the Freedom Movement"
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African American Buddhist, was also a human rights activist.
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An American Baptist and activist. Nonviolent Civil Rights leader.
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An African-American teenager who was killed in Mississippi in '55.
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A riot in Detroit where there were a lot of immigrants moving in from Southern America. 34 died, 433 injured, 1,800 arrested.
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Court bands white and black schools. Declares them unconstitutional.
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After court ruling, President Eisenhower has nine kids in Little Rock (Little Rock 9) escorted to school by federal troops.
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Nonviolent protests that were in Greensboro,NC. Stores removed racial segregation in the South.
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Civil Rights activist who rode interstate buses into the South. Challenged non-enforcement of Southern U.S..
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Abolished poll tax for federal elections.
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March to allow jobs for African Americans.
Martin Luther King gives iconic speech "I Have a Dream" -
Outlaws discrimination on race, color, sex, or national origin.
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A protest march on a Selma highway ALL THE WAY to Montgomery to have voting rights.
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Ammendment that allowed African Americans to vote.
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This was a time when blacks refused to ride public buses in Montgomery, AL. It happened for one year and a extra day.