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The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories.
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In 1849, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, then immediately returned to Maryland to rescue her family.
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war.
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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Plessy v. Ferguson, is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States.
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The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. The Movement also included the new African-American cultural expressions across the urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest United States wiki
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The movement was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance. Between 1955 and 1968, acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations between activists and government authorities.
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"I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr
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Sixteenth Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama which is frequented mostly by African Americans.
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King Jr. was hit by a sniper's bullet.
