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Jim Crow laws were set to desegregate schools, restaurants, restrooms, public transportation, and other public places.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People also known as NAACP is a civil rights organization that was created in the United states in 1909. This Organization was created to advance Justice for African Americans.
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El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, also known as Malcolm X, was an African American minister, and human rights activist who became one the worlds most famous leaders who brought change in the united states.
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African American minister and activist who became the most inspirational leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
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The Black Panthers, was a political organization founded in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton to rise up against police brutality against the African American community.
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This case resulted in the Supreme Court making a decision to desegregate schools.
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SCLC also known as Southern Christian Leadership Conference was a civil rights organization for African Americans that was associated with Martin Luther King Jr.
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A group of nine African American who were enrolled into Little Rock Central High School. This event was followed by the Little Rock Crisis where the students were prevented from entering the racially segregated school by the Governor of Arkansas.
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This committee was the highest student committee in the united states in the 1960's to the civil rights movement.
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He believed the the civil rights was morally right and he made sure that the civil rights legislation was submitted to the constitution so that way public facilities was equally open to all races and he made a effort to end segregation.
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African American civil rights organization that played a very crucial role on the civil rights movement.
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In 1960, in Greensboro, there was a restaurant that had a "Whites Only" lunch counter. There were four African American student that protested and sat at the counter and denied leaving after being asked to leave after several times.
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James Meredith: The first African American student at the University of Mississippi. He was Originally rejected and a legal battle was ensued this eventually led to bloody riots on Ole Miss
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He signed civil right bills that racial discrimination in public facilities would be banned along with housing as well.
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The Twenty-fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from controlling the right to vote in federal elections on tax payments.
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This act prevented or prohibited discrimination acts in public facilities and in job employments along with school and education in general.
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This act prohibits Racial Discrimination acts in voting.
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A U.S civil rights activist in the 1960's who originated the slogan "Black Power". He was from Trinidad and immigrated to New York in 1952.
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It was a 11-member commission that wanted to investigate the reasons behind the 1967 race riots and what can they do to prevent future riots the report was released in 1968 after a 7-month investigation.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated April 4, 1968, Memphis, TN.