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The Emancipation Proclamation declared that all slaves held under rebellious states were free.
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The Senate passed the 13th Amendment, which formally abolished slavery.
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The Senate and House of Representatives passed the 14th Amendment, which gave African Americans citizenship.
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After Homer Plessy, a man of mixed race, entered a train car that was "whites only", he began a discussion about state-sponsored segregation and whether African Americans should be allowed to sit in any train car.
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This was a supreme court case in which the Court declared segregation between schools to be unconstitutional. This paved the way for future integration of Central High School.
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Emmett Till was a fourteen-year-old boy who was viciously lynched after flirting with a white woman.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a peaceful boycott of the public transit system in Montgomery, Alabama that lasted for slightly over a year.
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After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional, Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas was the first high school to integrate African Americans. The first students, nicknamed "The Little Rock Nine" caused a huge reaction throughout Arkansas and the entire country.