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The Declaration of Independence was adopted by Congress announcing that the thirteen colonies were independent states.
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Dred Scott vs. Sanford was ruled by the U.S. Supreme Court stating that any african being as a slave would not be protected by Constitution and would never be a U.S. citizen.
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The Emancipation Proclamation is a written order by President Lincoln stating the 3.1 out of the 4 million of the slaves are to be imediately freed.
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The Thirteenth Amendment officially abolished slavery.
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The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits Government from denying an citzen's suffrage based on their "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
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The Fourteenth Amendment was adopted as a Reconstruction Amendment consisting of three clauses; the Citizenship Clause, the Due Process Clause, and the Equal Protection Clause.
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Plessy v. Ferguson was a United States Supreme Court decision requiring racial segregration in private buisnesses.
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Truman issues an order that gives the opportunity of "equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin."
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A decision made by the United States Supreme Court declaring state laws that established seperate schools for the whites and the blacks unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white person.
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Nine black teenagers walked up to Little Rock Highschool trying to enter and enroll while the National Guard blocks them from entering.
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Four black college students attack social orders of the time by siting in a area where black patrons were not served.
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Civil Rights activists rode buses down to segregated states to fight against the United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia.
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Medgar Evers, a civil rigts activist, was assassinated when he was 37.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech publicly calling for racial equality and the end to racial descrimination.
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The Civil Rights Act was a piece of legislaton outlawing descrimination against black people and women.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968 prohibiting discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin.
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The Selma to Montgomery March was a series of marches for voting rights. In the end Malcolm X was assassinated.
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Thurgood Marshall was the first black-american to serve in the Supreme Court as a American jurist.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Menphis, Tennessee at the age 39.