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The supreme court case "seperate but equal"
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U.S civil rights organization that helped African Americans in the Civil Rights movement.
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First African American player in major leagues (baseball).
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Challenged the Plessy v Ferguson case & won, ended racial segregation
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Supreme court case that ended "black" & "white" schools
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An American civil rights activist from Mississippi who worked to overturn segregatiom there and gain social justice and voting rights.
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Martin Luther King Jr. organized the boycott , which began a chain reaction of similar boycotts.
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Document written in opposition to racial integration of public places
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Recognized for the role it played in the desegregation of public schools.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A group of northern idealists active in the civil rights movement. The Freedom Riders, who included both blacks and whites, rode buses into the South in the early 1960s in order to challenge racial segregation.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was one of the most important organizations of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. SNCC legacy is the destruction of the psychological shackles which had kept black southerners in physical and mental peonage; SNCC helped break those chains forever. It demonstrated that ordinary women and men, young and old, could perform extraordinary tasks.
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One of the most important orginizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
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Greensboro sit-in was the most influential and significant sit-in of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Group of northern idealists active in the Civil Rights Movement. Rode busses to the South to challenge racial segregation.
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First African American to attend the university of Mississippi.
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A letter that Martin Luther King Jr addressed to his fellow clergymen while in jail.
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One of the largest political rallies for human rughts in US history and demained civil and economic rights.
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Four girls died in the hate-bombing of the church.
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Federal law that authorized federal action against segregation in public.
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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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Volunteer campaign in the US launched in 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi.
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Cannot demy or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote because of race or color.
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One of the most important African American political leaders of the twentith century assassinated.
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MLK led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama after a 5 day, 54 mile march.
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Orginization setup in the US to fight for black rights.
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Shot dead while standing on a blacony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Tennesse.
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