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The Indian Reorganization Act set up a tribal business councils and stopped the sale of tribal lands.
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NAACP Legal Defense Fund was founded by Thurgood Marshall.
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Ban against discrimination in defense industry is made.
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The CORE is founded.
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Integration of Major League Baseball by Jackie Robinson.
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President Truman desegregate the armed forces.
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Congress adopted the Termination Policy, moving many Native Americans to cities and cutting aid to reservations.
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Supreme Court rules that segregration in public schools is unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks boards the Montgomery bus and was arrested for not getting up when a Caucasian did not have a seat.
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A crowd of whites harass black students on their first day of school at Little Rock's Central High School. The nine black students were known as the Little Rock Nine.
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Protesters in Greensboro, North Carolina challenge racial segregation of public facilities
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The Freedom Riders start their journey on May 4th and travel all the way down to their 7th stop of Southern America before they were stopped. They never reached their final destination of New Orleans.
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Civil Right protesters stage a march on Washington
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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaws gender discrimination in employment.
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President Johnson sings the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into a law.
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Farmworkers begin a strike in Delano, California.
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Civil Rights Leader, Martin Luther King Jr. is killed.
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Occupation fo Alcatraz began, awakening the public to Native American struggle for self determination.
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400,000 people attended the Woodstock Music & Art Fair in Upstate New York.
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Supreme Court upholds the use of busing to integrate schools.
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The Indian Education Act established culturally appropriate educational programs for Native American students.
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Congress approves the Equal Rights Amendment.