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Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian.
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Separate but equal
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States
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Many blacks in Detroit forced into 60 miles, while businesses burned
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Leader of India independence movement in British-ruled India
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de fraco was segregation that exist by practice and custom. De jure was segregation by law
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Father of eight year old Linda brown had charged the board of education of Topeka, Kansas, with violating Linda's rights to attend school.
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lawyer for Brown vs. Board-1st black supreme court justice
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Black teenager- murdered in Miss. For talking to a white girl
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National Guard protected African Americans while they were in Central High school.
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Four black students from north Carolina A&T sat illegally at in a restaurant.
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200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C for a political rally known as the March on Washington for and Freedom
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American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in African-American civil rights movement.
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abolished tax to vote
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Made it easier for african Americans to vote by eliminating discriminatory literacy test and authorizing federal examiners to enroll voters denied at the local level
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March to register black voters based on custom-in schools and Public places.
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Head of Nation of Islam
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The panthers practiced militant self defense communities against U.S government
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arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man
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A movement to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham
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Rosa parks refused to give her seat up for a white man
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one of the civil rights activists who rode buses through the south in early 1960s to challenge segregation.