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Massachusetts becomes the first colony to recognize slavery as a legal institution in 1641 Body of Liberties.
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Georgia is the last of the British North American colonies to legalize slavery.
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The Civil War begins.
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The Civil War ends.
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Slavery is abolished in Brazil.
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The military forces Emperor Pedro II to give up his throne. Brazil becomes a republic with a president.
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The setting of Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry is in the south in Spokane County, Mississippi.
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Cuba became communist. The reason why Cuba became a communist state was because it was influenced by the USSR which was a super power at the time. In addition, the country received aid from the USSR, which was an incentive that Cuba could not overlook.
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More than 200,000 people march on Washington, D.C., in the largest civil rights demonstration ever; Martin Luther King, Jr., gives his "I Have a Dream" speech.
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Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American justice on the Supreme Court. Marshall was a man of the law who believed deeply in the Constitution as a way of changing life for African Americans in the U.S.
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Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. His murder sparks a week of rioting across the country.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday is made into a national holiday. He affected the civil rights movemment and his activism and philosophy has been the catalyst to other causes and movements.
