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Barack Obama became the first black presidento of USA. Cecil took with him at the White House.
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Cecil finally obtain a more hight salary for black people. (The salary between white and black people were different).
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Nixon became president. He didn't help black people in the south, so black people weren't happy.
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Martin Luther King was shot as he stood on the balcony outside his hotel room in Memphis, Tennesssee. President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which prohibited discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of housing.
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Stokely Carmichael, a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, used the expression "black power" for the first time. He meant it as an assertion of black pride and "the coming together of black people to fight for they liberation by any means necessary".
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The militant Black Panthers were founded in Oakland, California. The Panters' strategy of "picking up the gun" reflected the feelings of many inner-city blacks. Louis enter in this movement.
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Black nationalist and founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity. Malcolm X was shot dead in Harlem, New York.
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After Kennedy death, Lyndon Johnson became the president. He signed the Civil Rights Act, which outlawed major forms of discrimination and ended many areas of segregation.
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About 200'000 people joined the March of Washington. The participants assembled at the Lincoln Memorial to listen to Martin Luther King deliver his famous "I have a dream" speach.
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James Meredith was the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississipi. President Kennedy had to sent 5000 federal troops to deal with the violence and riots that surrounded the event.
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Kennedy become the president of USA. It was a clever president that enjoyed work with his servants.
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Louis (the Cecil' son) was accepted in a south university. Here he started to revolt against the government.
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Here they talked about some problems of the education that black children (in the south of USA) had.
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Martin Luther King and others established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The SCLC became a major force in organising the Civil Rights Movement and founded its principles on non-violence and civil disobedience.
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Cecil moved to another city. He found work in a hotel where he met his future wife, Gloria. They will have two sons.
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Rosa Parks was arrested because she refused to give up her seat at the front of the "coloured section" of a bus to a white passenger.
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Cecil worked in a cotton plantain with his parents.
His mother was raped and his father was shot.
