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A young traveling salesman named Robert Burleson was the subject of the case, and he had been cautioned by a few "concerned citizens" to leave the area due to an alleged "adulterous" relationship with the widow who managed a boarding home. Burleson, a World War I veteran, answered firmly by telling everyone he encountered that he would not submit to bullying and would, in fact, kill the first one who attempted to force him to leave.Those who warned him reacted with impudence.
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The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), founded by a mixed-race group of Chicago students, was a leader in the use of nonviolent direct action in the country's civil rights movement.
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The desegregation of the American military was required under the directive. "It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin," reads the first sentence of the executive order.
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The federal statute (now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) providing access to a free suitable public education for all children with disabilities was passed in 1975 as a result of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.
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King organized a series of non-violent, nonviolent demonstrations to combat racial injustice in the US. This movement's initial manifestation started in December.
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Rosa Parks was jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus, violating the city's racial segregation laws. Martin Luther King, Jr. organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which followed Park's act of civil disobedience.
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At Little Rock, Arkansas' Central High School, nine African American students had just arrived. They moved through the crowd while shouting profanities and even tossing things. The National Guard stopped the children from entering the school as they arrived at the front entrance, forcing them to leave for home instead.
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founded in 1960, Members of SNCC rode buses through the South to uphold the Supreme Court ruling that interstate travel could not be segregated.
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young african american students in greensbro, staged a
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In Anniston, Alabama, the Greyhound bus was the first to arrive. Around 200 irate white individuals surrounded the bus there, forcing the driver to keep going past the bus terminal because of the hostile crowd. When the bus's tires blew out from the mob's pursuit in cars, someone detonated a bomb inside the vehicle.
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It was a revolutionary group that promoted Black nationalism, socialism, and the use of weapons in self-defense, particularly in the face of police brutality.
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On August 28, 1963, Washington, D.C., hosted the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also referred to as the March on Washington or The Great March on Washington. The march was organized to promote African Americans' civic and economic rights.
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In all of the states and territories of the United States, slavery was permanently outlawed by the 13th Amendment. The amendment prohibited not only slavery but also peonage and forced servitude.
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Discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin is illegal under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This civil rights act's provisions prohibited discrimination in hiring, promoting, and firing on the basis of sex in addition to race.
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Malcolm X founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU), a Black nationalist group, in 1964. The OAAU was a nonreligious organization that aimed to bring together 22 million non-Muslim African Americans and the inhabitants of Africa.
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Several hundred people gathered in Selma, Alabama, to march to Montgomery, the state's capital. Even in the face of a segregationist system that sought to prevent African Americans from exercising their constitutional right to vote, they marched to assure that it would be possible.
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the United States Senate passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The long-delayed issue of voting rights had come to the forefront because of a voter registration drive launched by civil rights activists in Selma, Alabama.
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The arrest of Marquette Frye, an African-American man from the Watts neighborhood, sparked the riots. A white California police officer detained him for allegedly driving while inebriated. The riots continued for six days before the National Guard imposed a curfew.
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At the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, Martin Luther King was assassinated when he was standing on a balcony outside of his second-floor room. Major racial violence breakouts were sparked by news of King's murder, resulting in more than 40 fatalities nationally and significant property damage in more than 100 American communities.