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Missouri Compromise
The plan to balance the power in Congress between free states and slave states. This made Missouri a slave state and Maine as a free state. -
Harriet Tubman
Escaped from the Underground Railroad which freed slaves in the North. She also served as a spy in the Union which was during the Civil War. -
13th Amendment
Slavery was abolished for good in the United States -
15th Amendment
The right to vote and shall not be denied by color nor race. -
Jackie Robinson
He was the first African American to play in the Major Leagues. -
Emmett Till
http://www.emmetttillmurder.com/Two white men murdered him when he was at his uncles place. They beat him, shot him then threw him in a river. He was only fourteen. -
Rosa Parks
She refused to give up her seat to a white passanger so the bus driver calleed the police and she got arrested. -
Sixteenth Street Baptist Chruch Bombing
The chruch was a meeting place for Civil Right leaders. A white man was seen getting out of a car and placing a box under the church steps soon after the bomb exploded and killed four people. -
Martin Luther King
He was shot by a sniper when he went out to the balcony at a Motel.
