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Abolishing Slavery in the United States
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Constitutional amendment forbids any state from depriving citizens of their rights and privileges and defines citizenship
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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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1947 federal court case that challenged racial segregation in Orange County, California schools
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Pasadena resident and UCLA alum Robinson breaks the color barrier by being the first black to play major league baseball in modern times
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Pres. Truman issues executive order requiring integrated units in the armed forces
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Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional
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More than 200,000 blacks and whites gather before Lincoln Memorial to hear speeches and protest racial injustice
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4 black girls are killed by bomb planted in church
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Overcoming Senate filibuster, Congress passes law forbidding racial discrimination in many areas of life, including hotels, voting, employment, and schools
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Rejecting integration and nonviolence, Malcolm splits off from Elijah Muhammad's Black Muslims and is killed by black opponents
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King leads 54-mile march to support black voter registration. Despite attacks from police and interference from Gov. Wallace, marchers reach Montgomery. Pres. Johnson addresses nation in support of marchers
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After passage, southern black voter registration grows by over 50% and black officials are elected to various positions. In Mississippi, black voter registration grew from 7% to 67%
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In first of more than 100 riots, Los Angeles black suburb erupts in riots, burning, looting, and 34 deaths
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While supporting sanitation workers' strike which had been marred by violence in Memphis, King is shot by James Earl Ray. Riots result in 125 cities
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Following acquittal of officers who beat Rodney King, 600 buildings are torched and 50 people killed, and $1 billion in damage recorded