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In 1865 13th Amendment outlaws slavery
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In 1865 the Ku Klux Klan founded to maintain white supremacy throuhg intimidation, and violence.
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In 1865 Freedman's Bureau formed during reconsturction to assist freed slaves in the south.
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In 1866 Civil Rights Acts grants citizenship to native-born Americans except Indians.
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In 1868 14th Amendment grants equal protection of the laws to African Americans
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In 1870 15th Amendment establishes the right of African American males to vote
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In 1875 Civil Rights Act grants equal access to public accommodations
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In 1896 Supreme Court validates the principle of "separate but equal" in Plessy v. Ferguson
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In 1905 Niagara Movement founded to fight for school integration, voting rights, and assist African American political candidates, forerunner of the NAACP
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In 1906 Greensburg, Indiana, race riot, the first of many in reaction to African American migration north
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The KKK re-invented themselves
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in 1920 the 19th amendment gave women the right to vote.
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In 1942 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) fought for Civil Rights using non-violent protest
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in 1948 segregation in the U.S military was ended by President Harry Truman.
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In 1954 Brown vs. Borad of education overturned the sepreate but equal law.
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In 1955 Rosa Parks refused to move out her seat and the boycott began.
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in 1957 the troops were sent to Arkansas to inforce the desegregation of schools, by president Dwight Eisnerhower
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In 1960 the Civil Rights Act confirms voting rights for all americans.
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In 1965 Malcolm X was assassinated, while preparing to give a speech
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Martin luther King was assassinated
