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Missouri Comromise
On March 3, 1820, Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel, which runs approximately along the southern border of Missouri -
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African American civil rights movement
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civil war took place at Fort Sumter
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/faq/
The first shot of the Civil War was fired at Fort Sumter. The war ended in the spring of 1865. -
Founding of NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -
Jackie Robinson
First african american to play in the professional baseball league. -
Emmet Till murder
He was killed because he filrted with a white women he was killed by the womens husband and his brother -
Rosa Parks's bus boycott
She would not give up her seat on the bus -
Littile Rock 9
Nine african americans were let in to the little rock school -
I have a dream speech
Martin Luther King Jr. gave his most famous speech on equality -
Civil rights of 1964 passed
[www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/history/CivilRightsAct.cfm](<a href='http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/history/CivilRightsAct.cfm)' >Civil war website</a> it gave federal government the right to end segregation in the South it prohibited segregation in public places. A public place was anywhere that received any form of federal (tax) funding (most places). This stopped lawyers homing in on the private places issue. This act tried to cover every aspect that some lawyer might use -
Martin Luther King assassination
Civil rights speaker Martin Luther King jr was shot and killed
