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Advocates for Black Nationalism
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Congress of Racial Equality founded
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Jackie Robinson Hired to the Brooklyn Dodgers
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Executive Order 9981
-Segregation: the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.
-On buses African Americans were forced to stand at the back of the bus and to give up their seat to a White American if told to give up their seat. -
Brown V. Board of Education Ruling
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
-Plessy v. Ferguson: 1896 case that determined separate but equal facilities.
-Originally Kennedy's idea, President Johnson was able to get passed.
-Civil Rights act banned discrimination. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
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First Lunch Counter Sit-Ins
-Sit-in: Sitting in a public facility as a means of peaceful protesting.
-Jim Crow Laws: Laws that made racial segregation okay in the south.
- African American college kids went into woolsworth everyday.
-These students were often atacked by white customers and store customers. -
Integration of Central High School
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Freedom Rides
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Birmingham Campaign: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
SCLC- -
March on Washington
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Watts Riot
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Black Panther Party Founded
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
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Swann v Charlotte- Mecklenberg Board of Education
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Regents of the University of California v. Bakke Day
