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in 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, officially ending the institution of slavery.
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the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The amendment granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States"
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The 15th Amendment, granting African-American men the right to vote, was formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution on March 30, 1870.
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plesy vs ferguson was a United States Supreme Court decision holding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal" creating legal segregation.
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Mendez vs. Westminster was a federal court case that challenged racial segregation in Orange County, California schools. It was the first ruling in the United States in favor of desegregation.
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the korean war was a war between north and south korea in which the U.S. fought for the south and the Chinese fought for the north
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this era brought us empowerment, divergence, resentment and liberation, and it has certainly become a permanent part of our political and cultural lives.
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Julius and Ethel Rosenburg are executed for conspiracy to commit espionage by passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union
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this was a landmark Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing segregating public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the United States government agency responsible for the civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
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Fidel Castro is sworn in to Cuba as their dictator
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John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon squared off in the first televised presidential debates in American history.
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the "man on the moon" speech was delivered by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in front of a large crowd gathered at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas on September 12, 1962.
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MLK jr. delivered a speech to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln memorial during the march on Washington.
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n November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot twice, and an hour after his death Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime.
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MLK jr. was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday, April 4, 1968, at the age of 39.
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The civil rights act of 1964 is signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson effectively prohibiting discrimination and segregation in schools.
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On August 11, 1965, a black motorist was arrested for drunk-driving, a minor roadside argument escalated into a fight, and the community reacted in outrage. There followed six days of looting, arson and murder. The five days of violence left 34 dead, 1,032 injured, nearly 4,000 arrested, and $40 million worth of property destroyed.
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in response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 2 and 4, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson decides to escalate the Vietnam Conflict by sending U.S. ground troops to Vietnam.
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On January 31, 1968, some 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive, a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam.
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RFK served as a Senator for New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968 during his presidential campaign.