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Missouri Compromise,
The compromise provided for the admission of Missouri into the Union as a slave state but prohibited slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory. It went into effect through an act of Congress signed by President James Monroe -
Escape of Harriet Tubman.
Harriet Tubman helped free over 100 slaves. She showed them the Underground Railroad. She died in 1913. -
Founding of NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 -
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Rosa Park's bus boycott.
On this day, Rosa Parks stood up for her race. She was on the bus. She sat in a whites seat, but she refused to get up. When she didnt get up, she got arrested. -
Little Rock 9.
Little Rock Nine were a group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
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