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The landmark legalization of segregation in America in 1896
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a major breakthrough of the color line in sports occurred when Jackie Robinson, a 28-year-old African-American ballplayer and war veteran, was brought up from the minor leagues to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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This executive order abolished discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin in the Armed Forces, and led to the end of segregation.
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case Where the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
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Inhumane hatred of another race that Emmit Till a young man was beaten until he unrecognizable than shot. sad and unjustifiable
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civil rights protest where African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery Alabama to protest segregated seating.
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nine teens came to be known as the little rock nine were to be the first African American students to enter Little Rock High School.
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Act to stop discrimination for voters for religion race or nationality.
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African Americans sat in at white diners to protest discrimination
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Freedom riders rode buses through the racist states
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The Twenty-fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
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President John F. Kennedy federalized National Guard troops and deployed them to the University of Alabama to force its desegregation.
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The Martin Luther King speech in Washington was the greatest and biggest turning point in history
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riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith.
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John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas
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law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin.
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On February 21, 1965, while giving a speech in Harlem, the 39-year old Malcolm X was assassinated by rival Black Muslims.
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King’s assassination led to an outpouring of anger among young African Americans, as well as a period of national mourning.
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expanded on previous acts and prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin.