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Ended legal segregation in public schools.
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Boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman in 1955.
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After a hard day of work, Rosa Parks refused to give her seat away to a white man. This caused an uproar and skyrocketed the civil rights protests.
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A group of African american students enroll at little rock central high school in 1957.
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Franklin McCain refused to leave "white only" restaurant and thereby pushed forward the civil rights of blacks.
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee one of the organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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ivil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961.
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The Birmingham campaign was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. Police and "bull" used high-pressure water jets and police attack dogs on the children and bystanders.
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An open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King, Jr. defending the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism.
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One of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history
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The Twenty-fourth 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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Outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women.
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Murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner were American civil rights workers who were shot by members of the Ku Klux Klan on the night of june 21st 1964
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits discrimination in voting.
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Also known as the Watts Riots or Watts Rebellion was a race riot that took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 17, 1965
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Human rights activists Malcolm x was assassinated.
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Signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 24, 1965, it established the requirements for non-discriminatory practices in hiring and employment on the part of U.S. government contractors.
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Black Panthers was a black revolutionary socialist organization in the United States founded in October 15, 1966.
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A landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage.
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Leader of the civil rights activists MLK also known as Martin Luther King jr. was assassinated on april 4th, 1968.
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Provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed, or national origin and made it a federal crime to “by force or by threat of force, injure, intimidate, or interfere with anyone
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Protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers of the British Army.
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Series of riots, lootings, arsons and civil disturbance that occurred in Los Angeles County.
