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- Abolished slavery in the United States.
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- Granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States" including recently freed slaves.
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- Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
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- United States Courts held that the segregation of Mexican and Mexican American students into separate "Mexican schools" was unconstitutional.
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- The Supreme Court ruled that segragation in public schools is unconstitutional.
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- Emmett Till was kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot, and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
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- Refused to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger and was arrested which lead to the beginning of the bus boycott.
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- Nine black students are blocked from entering the school which was later intervened by President Eisenhower who sent federal troops and the National Guard to intervene on behalf of the students.
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- Student volunteers begin taking bus trips to test out new laws that prohibit segregation in interstate travel facilities.
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- During civil rights protests police uses fire hoses and police dogs on black demonstrators.
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- About 200,000 people march to Washington DC to hear Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speach.
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- Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin.
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- Literacy tests, poll taxes, and other such requirements that were used to restrict black voting are made illegal.
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- Shot as he stands on the balcony outside his hotel room.
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- Prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
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- Granted African American men the right to vote.