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Crispus Attucks was an African American man who was killed in the Boston Massacre.
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This law provided for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory.
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Nat Turner was a self-styled Baptist minister who led a slave rebellion in Southhampton County, Virginia. He took 16 people and killed sixty white men, women, and children. He also killed slaves who wold not follow him or was willing to snitch on him. The rebellion was supressed on August 23, 1831 and Turner was hanged November 11.
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A group of slaves on board the slave ship the Amistad launched a successful rebellion killing most of the Spaniards on the ship.
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This a law passed that allow Southern slave owners to retrieve runaway slave that fled to the North.
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Dred Scott sued his slave owner for freedom after his owner took him into a slave free state. The court ruled that slaves are not people and can not use fedral courts.
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John Brown, a Northern white abolitionist, led a raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia. It was a leading cause for the Civil War.
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South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the Union and start the Confederacy.
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A decleration written bby Lincoln that declared that all slaves are free.
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This amendment prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
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There was a roit in Pheonix South Carolina when the Tolberts attempted to decrease the black vote through disfranchisement.
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The Rosewood Massacre was a massacre in the small, predominately black town of Rosewood in Central Florida. The massacre was instigated by the rumor that a white woman, Fanny Taylor, had been sexually assaulted by a black man in her home in a nearby community.
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Ruby Bates and Victoria Price accused black teenagers of rape they were arrested. This started lynch mobs that wanted the boys killed.
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George McLaurin was denied admission to the University of Oklahoma to pursue a Doctor of Education degree. McLaurin successfully sued in the US District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma to gain admission to the institution.
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Sweatt vs. Painter U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson.
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Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional.
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Emmett Till was 14 year old boy, from Chicago, who was brutally murdered for whistling with a white woman. The murderers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam were aquitted for the crimes.
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The " Little Rock Nine" were nine kids who enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. The students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas.
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Ruby was the only black child to be assigned to William Frantz Elementary. She recieved death threats and required marshal protection.
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James H. Meredith became the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi. He was prevented from entering twice before and JFK had to send federal marshals for his protection.
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The March on Washington was a protest for Jobs and Freedom that 200,000 - 300,000 and marched on Washington D.C. It was known as the greatest Civil Rights march and took a giant step for CIvil Rights.
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The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed as an act of white supremacist terrorism.
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Malcolm X was shot 21 times in the chest while addressing the Organization of Afro-American Unity in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom.
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600 people were protesting the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson and exclusion from the electoral process.
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Protestors were shot by South Carolina Highway Patrol Officers while they were demonstrating against racial segregation at a local bowling alley.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was shot by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis.
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She was arrested for her involvement with Jonathan Jackson, a 17 year old African-American student, who took control of a courtroom and killed three people.
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Donald Johanson found 40% of a female
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Alex Haley published his book ROOTS: The Saga of an American Family.
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Rodney King was beaten by two LAPD police officers after leading police on a high speed chase. It lead to the famous "Rodney King" riots in Southern California.
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Barack Obama becomes the 44th president and the first black president in American history.
