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A court case that determined blacks and whites were 'spererate but equal.' This was seen as an act of segregation
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Du Bois and Jane Addams formed the NACCP to " ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights for all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial descrimination."
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Jackie Robinson was the first black player to play in the previously all white american major leauge of baseball.
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Truman orders that segregation be ended in the millitary.
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Case where the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in schools, was unconstitutional.
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Emmett Till, a 14 year old boy, was brutally murdered, after flirting with a white woman.
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A movement where Rosa Parks, among others, boycotted the bus system to end segregation of it.
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Nine Black students are allowed to attend Central High School.
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Blacks in Greensboro, and other places, began to sit inside whites only establishments, to promote integration.
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Black civil rights activists that rode on buses in the south to test new rulings.
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High School students marched to talk to mayor about equal rights. They were stopped by police with water hoses, and attack dogs.
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Martin Luther King Junior, and other civil rights activists marched on washington for 'jobs and freedom' MLK gave his 'I have a dream' speech
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Law that outlawed discrimination by race, color, religon, sex, or national origin.
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Malcom X was assassinatied by rival black Muslims
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Civil rights activists marched around the south to promote anti discrimination. They were met with violence from Alabama state troopers.
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LBJ signed law dictating voting rights.
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A black man was arrested for DUI. Many people in the city later started riots, specifically targeting white businesses.