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"National Association for the Advancement of Colored People" One of the earliest and most influential civil rights organization in the United States
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Nine young black men, falsely accused of raping two white women on board a train near Scottsboro, Alabama
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Robinson joined major league baseball and the Dodgers team, becoming the first African American in the major leagues
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Fourteen year old kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi, creating national attention and beginning civil rights movement
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The boycott of public buses by blacks in Montgomery began on the day of Rosa Parks' court hearing and lasted 381 days
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Goup of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School to integrate high school
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Six year old that became the first black student to attend an all white school
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Letter defending non violent protesting methods written by Martin Luther King Jr. while he was in jail
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Act that ended segregation in public places changing the previous rule of "separate but equal"
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Malcom X was shot while preparing to deliver a speech about his new organization (Organization of Afro-American Unity). Afterwards influenced the creation of the Black Panthers.
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Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party following Malcom X's assasination
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King was shot a as he stood on the balcony outside his room at his hotel in Memphis, TN after giving a speech earlier that night.
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The 44th president of the United States and the first black president
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First black assosciate justice of Supreme Court
