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163 US 537 was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court. It upheld state racial segregation laws
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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African American justice
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a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by W. E. B.
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was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
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African American Muslim minister and human rights activist.
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American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs
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African American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka,
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because the treatment of the rose parks made people start walking and not taking the bus and making the bus company lose money
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9 black kids from Central High dinned in and the gov stopped it
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black students sat at the lunch counters for whites not to sit
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were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States
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MLK marched and was arrested in Birmingham. May second 1,000 African american children marched in Birmingham and set dogs, fire holes, and clubs on them
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250,000 people march on Washington to demand civil rights bill be passed. MLK gave his "I have a dream" speech
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stopped poll taxes in order to vote federal elections
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it stopped discrimination in public place, housing, and jobs
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clashes between white authority and black civilians started in many major cities in the U.S
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MLK march from Selma to Montgomery protesting the death of demonstrator. violence broke out showing police brutality
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literacy test stopped and federal gov monitored voter registration
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revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in October 1966
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de jure is segregation by law vs.segregation by custom