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14-year-old, Emmett Till is murdered after flirting with a white women. -
After rosa park did not give up her seat, this caused trouble and the entire black population refused to use the public bus system to protest the incident. -
Legislation allowed the prosecution of those who violated or denied someone the right to vote if they are a USA citizen. -
Nine black students enroled into a white school to test Brown vs board of education. They caused the national guard to get involve to protect the students from the state national guard. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), nonsectarian American agency with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, established by the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights activists in 1957 -
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Protesters staged a sit-in at a local dinner and caused many others to do the same across the south. -
Her goal was to walk from Memphis to Jackson Mississippi to attempt to encourage voter registration by African Americans in the South. -
THe albany campaine was formed to draw attention to racial segragation practices in Georgia. -
idential Campaign 1972 Achievement 5 Chisholm began exploring her candidacy in July 1971 and formally announced her presidential bid on January 25, 1972, in a Baptist church in her district in Brooklyn. There, she called for a "bloodless revolution" at the forthcoming Democratic nominating convention for the 1972 U.S. presidential election. -
Nearly 250,000 people gather in front of the Lincoln Memorial to protest. This is where the I Have a Dream speech took place. -
This was a project to try to increase the number of registered black voters in the state of Mississippi. -
Malcom was gunned down in the Audubon Ballroom by three men, his wife and children survived. -
James Ray assinated Martin Luthor King Jr. on the balcony of his motel in menphis. -
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The Supreme Court of the United States unanimously upheld busing programs that aimed to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States. -
On April 1974, Aaron’s fourth-inning home run off the Dodgers’ Al Downing gave him 715 for his career and sent him past Babe Ruth on baseball’s all-time list. The homer came on the heels of an Opening Day blast against the Reds’ Jack Billingham that left Aaron tied with Ruth. -
Congressman Jordan delivered a speech that addressed the Democratic National Convention. She said that Americans need to commit themselves to the community and the nation. SHe was the first black women to deliver a keynote at a convention at a major party convention. -
This was sureme Court case that held that a university's admissions criteria which used race as a definite and exclusive basis for an admission decision violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.