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The House Joint Resolution declared the amendment to all people born or naturalized in the US, including past enslaved individuals. This provided "equal protection under the laws".
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Enforced racial segregation. “Jim Crow” came to be a derogatory term for Black people
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The decision allowed racially segregated in public facilities containing similar beliefs and laws to the “Jim Crow laws” throughout the US
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Medgar Evers was shot after coming home from a meeting. This action spurred actions on civil rights legislation.
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President Harry Truman signed an Executive Order, creating the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the US Armed Services.
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A landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
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Brought nationwide attention to the injustice of racial violence, prevalent in Mississippi.
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Rosa Parks protested the segregation towards South African Americans by having to offer their seats to white people that boarded the bus.
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Nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High, where they were racially segregated from entering the school.
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Four black students from North Carolina A & T College sat down at a Woolworth lunch counter, originally reserved for white people. The movement grew and launched lunch counter protests.
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Freedom riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States, challenging bus segregation in the upper South.
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After state forces took control, Meredith became the first African-American student to enrol at the University of Mississippi.
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Alabama Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Auditorium at the University of Alabama, to stop the enrollment of two African-American students.
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King's “I have a dream” speech called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.
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Proposed by congress, it abolished and forbids the federal and state governments from imposing taxes on voters during federal elections. (Elmited poll taxes).
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A landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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Martin Luther King is fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, prompting major outbreaks of racial violence