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America's oldest and largest civil rights organization
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The Brooklyn Dodgers decided to sign Jackie Robinson to challenge racial segregation in baseball and gain a competitive advantage
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The Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional.
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a major test of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white man so she was arrested.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed it into law on September 9, 1957. It was the first federal civil rights legislation since 1875 -
the official policy was to refuse service to anyone but whites
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a series of bus trips organized by the Congress of Racial Equality
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MLK was arrested and put into jail after leading a non-violent protest
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a protest against racial discrimination and a call for civil rights legislation
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a landmark piece of legislation that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, and ended segregation in public places and federally funded programs.
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a march held in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 for the 600 people attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge
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a landmark piece of federal legislation in the US that prohibits racial discrimination in voting
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MLK was shot dead while standing on the balcony outside his second-floor motel room in Memphis, Tennessee