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Towns that excluded non-whites via discrimination tactics
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President Wilson enacts segregation within the federal government, which was seen as presidential support for laws such as Jim Crow
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Racially restrictive covenants on housing could not be enforced by courts
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Supreme Court had a landmark ruling that segregation within public schools violated the 14th amendment making it unconstitutional to do
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A protest where young African American students did a sit-in at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and would not leave if denied service based on their race. This protest gained traction throughout college towns in the South
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Prominent civil rights and religious leaders gave speeches in front of 250,000 people in front of the Lincon Memorial, including Martin Luther King JR
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A ballot proposition that would nullify the Rumford Fair Housing Act. The Rumford Fair Housing Act helped end racial discrimination by property owners who refused to rent or sell their property to "colored" people. The ballot proposition was ruled unconstitutional in 1966 by the Supreme Court and affirmed in 1967
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination based on color, race, sex, religion, and national origin while strengthening other anti-discrimination acts. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 prohibited discrimination of the same sense when it came to ownership of property
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White Flight was where whites mass moved from areas becoming more racially diverse. Penick v. Columbus was a ruling that exposed a school district for knowingly finding ways to segregate white and black students
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A book that helped demonstrate what black Americans have and had to face
