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During Slavery
Colonel is father to Gram
Old Sir is a slave owner, Ebony woman is his slave -
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Gram-Caroline Shelby
Melisse, Gram's former slave
Butternut Woman marries Issac -
1st generation-Up from slavery
Isaac a doctor marries School Teacher
Hanibal-Melisse's son marries Josephine, Gram's daughter -
Clark, son of Isaac and School Teacher
Corrine, daughter of Hannibal and Josephine
Rachel mistress -
1950's in The Wedding
Liz, Shelby-daughters of Clark and Corrine -
Sweatt v. Painter
McLaurin v. Oklahoma
Henderson v. United States -
Pittsburg Courier is largest AA newspaper.
Ebony is largest AA magazine. -
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Chief Justice Warren declares "separate is not equal".
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Department of Defense announces desegregation of Armed Forces
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Supreme Court instructs all lower Federal Courts to desegregate schools with "all deliberate speed".
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14 year old Chicago boy, murdered in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
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Arrested in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Start of bus boycott, Martin Luther King named President and Leader
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Unrest in Virginia, Alabama, and Clinton, Tennessee. National Guards dispatche to Tenessee.
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Montgomery Bus Boycott ends marking the end of segregated buses.
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Organization of SNLC later named SCLC, King is 1st Chairman.
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Malcolm leads a protest in Harlem after Muslims are beaten by White police officers.
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African Americans can no longer be denied the right to vote.
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Little Rock 9 integrates Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Milded (Jeter) Loving, black, and Richard Perry Loving, white, married in Virginia and were classified as felons for breaking the miscegenation laws. Their marriage became the grondbreaking case behind the Supreme Court ruling of Loving v. Virginia in 1967.