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Shows rates of children’s school enrollment from 1850 to 1991. It shows the effects of the equality movement on education for children.
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Shows which states enacted Jim Crow segregation laws between 1865 and 1965. Jim Crow laws were a series of discriminatory laws against African Americans, all enacted separately across 100 years.
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Shows that extreme racist/white supremacist use of violent force against peaceful African American protestors destroyed a lot of effort to gain true racial equality for all. -
At the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. MLK Jr presented his famous “I Have A Dream” speech and it was the most recognized speech of all time. This speech influenced the government to take steps going closer to make all Americans equal.
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JFK was the 35th president and was assassinated in Dallas, Texas at 12:30 p.m. The assassin was arrested and he never faced trial because seven days later he was shot and killed while being transported to prison.
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This Bill that was passed made it illegal to deny any citizen of America the right to vote based on their color or race.
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Shows the percentage of black children that remain in unequal segregated schools despite the equality movement in the '60s.
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MLK Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray.
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JFK’s brother, Robert Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan in the kitchen of the Ambassador hotel and had died 26 hours later.
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Henry broke Ruth’s record and helping the advancement in civil rights and even had white fans cheer for him (Henry) “He became the first Black man for whom white fans in the South cheered”-former president Jimmy Carter.
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Guion “Guy” Bluford, Jr. was the first Black American to visit space as part of the Challenger space shuttle crew.
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Vanessa Williams from New York is crowned as the first Black Miss America at age 20.
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A bystander videotaped the attack, which led to a five-day riot in Los Angeles.