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a 14-year old African American boy, was murdered in August 1955 in a racist attack that shocked the nation. The reason for his murder was Emmett allegedly grabbed a white woman.
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A civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating.The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956.
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a civil rights protest that started when young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro and refused to leave after being denied service
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groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals
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to empower migrant farmworkers and to improve their wages and working conditions.
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a devoted husband and father, a distinguished World War II veteran, and a pioneering civil rights leader.
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political demonstration held in Washington, D.C., in 1963 by civil rights leaders to protest racial discrimination and to show support for major civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress.
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a man rushed forward and shot him once in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun and two other men charged the stage firing semi-automatic handguns.
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to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote.
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a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that doesn't allow racial discrimination in voting.
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The riots resulted in the deaths of 34 people, while more than 1,000 were injured and more than $40 million worth of property was destroyed.
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a former Hispanic political party centered on Chicano
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Title IX regulations recognize that sexual harassment, including sexual assault, is unlawful sex discrimination.
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the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction.
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an African American man who was a victim of police brutality.