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A black man that was shot during the fracus known as the Boston Massacre.
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If slaves ran from there owners, the legislation allowed the capture and return of the slave
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Nat Turner led the rebellion that was to inspire the surrounding plantation slaves to revolt against their masters, which reuslted in a many casualties for both whites and blacks.
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A slave ship full of Africans who unlocked their chains and slayed all the crew members. Joseph Cinque assumes leadership over the africans as well as he is the spokesman during trial regarding their freedom in America.
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This law was passed to return escaped to their owners and anyone that aided them would have to pay a fee and serve some time in jail.
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The court said all blacks were not citizens of the United States, but property and had no rights.
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The raid was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to lead a slave revolt that ultimately failed.
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South Carolina was the first Southern state to declare its secession from the Union.
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A document drawn uo by President Abraham Lincoln that had the intentions of freeing slaves in the seceded states, but it did nothing to help increase Union preservation and nothing to abolish slavery.
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Robert E. Lee the Confederate Commander surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant the Union Commander.
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United States President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth.
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery.
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Provided blacks with US citizenship.
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The right for Black men to vote.
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The decision ruled that seperate was equal.
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This riot is considered a turning point in North Carolina politics following Reconstruction.
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A racially-motivated mob in Florida eradicated a black family and other blacks becuase of the false accusations made by a young white woman.
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Nine black teenagers boys accused of raping two white women who accused them to cover their acts of debauchery in Alabama.
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The Sweatt case was successful case that challenged the racial segregation established.
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The case's decision of the Supreme Court ruled that seperation impaired learning.
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Case establishes separate but equal was unconstitutional.
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Emmett was an African-American boy who was killed for talking to a married white woman while in Mississippi where racial is the highest.
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The 9 African American students were initially supposed to be admitted into the recially dominated white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The governor of Arkanas prevented the nine from entering the racially segregated school. With the intervention President Eisenhower, the nine were able to attend with the protection of the Arkansas National Guard.
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Ruby was the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South.
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He was the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi.
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On Wednesday, August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech in which he called for an end to racism.
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In Birmingham, Alabama the 16th St. Church Bombing was bombed which killed four young black girls and injured more than 20 other people.
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Malcolm X was a strong advocate for the black empowerment movement.
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On March 17, 1965 President Lyndon Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress, calling for federal voting rights legislation to protect African Americans from barriers that prevented them from voting.
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President Johnson signed the resulting legislation into law to enforce the decision to give blacks the ability to vote.
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The Watts Riots raged for six days and resulted in more than forty million dollars worth of property damage. It is both the largest and costliest urban rebellion of the Civil Rights era.
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An act of racism in a small Southern town which did not allow black college students use of the community’s only bowling alley.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader of the African-American civil rights movement. He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on Thursday April 4 at the age of 39.
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Angela Davis was arrested in New York by the FBI for her gun being used to kill a judge.
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A clinical study conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis in African American men.
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The Australopithecus or Lucy is dated to have once roamed the earth 3.2 million years ago. Being discovered in 1974 near Ethiopia, supports many arguments regardinging the human races ancestrial roots.
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Roots was a book written by Alex Haley who traced his ancestry back to his forefather Kunta Kinte a captured mandika warrior that was traded into slavery and taken from his land of Africa to the foreign land of North America.
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Rodney King was an African-American construction worker who beaten by Los Angeles police officers.
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President Barack Obama is the 44th and current President of the United States, and the first African American to hold the office.
