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The law authorized the settlement of property loss claims by people of Japanese descent who were removed from the Pacific Coast area during World War II.
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Anti-war protestors during Nixon's years.
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CORE and SNCC organized them to test if the southern states would obey the Supreme Court.
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Those who practice draft resistance are sometimes referred to as "draft dodgers," a term which was made popular during the Vietnam War.
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Desegregation came to Ole Miss in the early 1960s with the activities of United States Air Force veteran James Meredith from Kosciusko, Mississippi.
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Martin Luther King and protestors disobeyed court orders and set an example of civil disobedience.
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Martin Luther King gave his "I Have A Dream" speech to 200,000 people at the Washington Monument.
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Kids gathered there to march against Birmingham Police and they killed 4 and injured 15 kids.
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Ended the poll tax.
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A campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi, which had historically excluded most blacks from voting. James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman, three civil rights activists were killed by the Ku Klux Klan.
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Banned legal discrimination and segragation.
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Student protest which took place during the 1964–1965 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
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They were marches and protests held in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement. Alabama state troopers attack civil-rights demonstrators outside Selma, Alabama, on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965.
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The event was attended by about 3,500 and consisted of debates, lectures, movies, and musical events aimed at protesting the war.
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Prohibits discrimination in voting.
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Race riot which took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. The six-day unrest resulted in 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and over $40 million in property damage. It was the most severe riot in the city's history until the Los Angeles riots of 1992.
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Chavez left the CSO and co-founded the National Farm Workers Association.
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An attempt by a number of social elements, people and interest groups to force socio-political change.
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Empowers the federal government to set and administer new safety standards for motor vehicles and road traffic safety.
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A black revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States. Very violent group
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A proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for women.
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Surprise attacks by the North on the South in Vietnam. Turning point of the the war.
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Mass murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968 commited by the U.S. Army.
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He said the war was to stressful for him and he was recieving death threats.
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Shot by James Earl Ray while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis.
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At the presidential primary elections in California, he was shaking hands with people after winning the states democratic presidential primary, Sirhan Sirhan shot him.
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A Native American activist organization in the United States, founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with an agenda that focuses on spirituality, leadership, and sovereignty.
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LBJ decide not to run, RobertKennedy gets assassinated, and the candidates are Hubert H. Humphery and Eugene McCarthy. Anti-war protestors were beaten by police in Chicago.
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Vietnamization removed U.S troops from Vietnam and replaced them with South Vietnamese troops. He invaded Cambodia to take out the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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Students at Kent State protested the war and the National Guard killed 4 and injured 9 students. At Jackson State, police killed 2 and injured 11 students.
