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Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his famous "I Have a Dream Speech". He also attends the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom that was attended by 250,000 people.
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act which prhibited discrimination of all kinds such as, race, religion, or national origin.
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Matin Luther Kind Jr. was assinated April 4th, in Memphis, Tennessee.
Shirley Chisholm also become the first black female U.S. Representative. -
Guion Bluford Jr. was the first African American in space. He took off from Kenedy Space Center in Florida.
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Colin Powell becomes the first African American U.S. Secretary of State.
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Halle Berry and Densel Washington were the first African Americans to win both the best actor and best actress Oscars.
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Condoleezza Rice becomes the forst black female U.S. Secretary of State.
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Barack Obama becomes the first African American presidens and the country's 44th President.
Eric H. Holder was asldo the forst African American to serve as Attorney General. -
Michael Brown was an unarmed teenager who was shot and killed in Ferguson, Mosouri by Darren Wilson, a police officer.
The grand jury's decison not to indict wilson sparked protest across the U.S. once it was announced. -
The 114th Congress includes 46 black members in the House of Representatives and two in the senate.
