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James Meredith enrolls at the University of Mississippi and is denied twice. Chaos broke out on the Mississippi campus the riots ended with two dead, hundreds wounded, and many others arrested.
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On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional
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42 year-old Rosa Parks on 12/1/1955 refuses to give up her seat on the Montgomery Bus to a white man who needed a seat. even though she was 10 seats behind the seats reserved for whites just because she was an African American she had to get up. when she refused, she was arrested and convicted of breaking a federal law.
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the montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The SCLC had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement.
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when Governor Orval Faubus mobilized the Arkansas National Guard in an effort to prevent nine African American students from integrating the high
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four students from all-black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College walked into a Woolworth five-and-dime with the intention of ordering lunch. But the manager of the Greensboro Woolworth had intentions of his own — to maintain the lunch counter's strict whites-only policy.
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In 1960 Ruby's parents responded to a request from NAACP for Ruby Bridges to integrate a public school in New Orleans
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a group of 13 African-American and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Rides, a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals.
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Connor uses firehoses with the water pressure set so high that it will take the bark off of the trees and separate the bricks from the motar. When the highschoolers wouldn't stop when told the police threatened "they will get wet" then they sprayed them, but they kept walking. Then, after that when they wouldnt stop Connor brought police dogs onto these innocent people
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King's famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail," was written in response to a public statement of concern and caution issued by eight white religious leaders of the South.
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the march on washington was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States History.Standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial Martin Luther King Jr gave his famous " I have a dream speech.
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The 24th ammendment prohibits poll taxes which were taxes people had to pay if they wanted to vote. They had to pay the tax for a national election.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination based upon color,race, religion,gender, national origin
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Mlacom X was shot and killed by assasins called black muslims when he was about to address the Afro-Americans Unity at the Audubun Ballroom in Harlem when he was 39 years old.
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is when activists organized a march for voting rights from Selma, Alabama to the states capital Montgomery. The march is called bloody sunday becuase they attacked people with tear gas, billy clubs, dogs, and fire hoses. 200 people died and 800 were wounded
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Affirmative Action is a policy or action favoring those who tend to be suffering from discrimination, especially in relation to school or work
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It outlawed discriminatory voting practices that were adopted in many southern statesafter the civil war, this included literacy test as a prerequisite of voting
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A routine traffic stop ignited a six-race riot in the Los-Angeles neighborhood in Watts. The riot left 34 dead and more than a 1000 injured
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Stokey Charmichael is a US civil rights activist who coined the phrase black power
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it is a black political organization originally known as the black panthers self defense group
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Lyndon Johnson appoints U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom C. Clark. On August 30, 1967
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He was shot and mortally wounded when he stood on the 2nd floor balcony outside his hotel room at the Lorraine hotel in Mephis, Tennesse
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the titans win the state championship
