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Congress of Racial Equality
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Black integration into the military
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U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation of America’s public schools was unconstitutional.
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The first day the students were legally integrated
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The Ole Miss riot of 1962, or Battle of Oxford, was fought between Southern segregationist civilians and federal and state forces beginning the night of September 30, 1962; segregationists were protesting the enrollment of James Meredith, a black US military veteran, at the University of Mississippi
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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
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1) banned segregation in businesses and places open to the public (such as restaurants and public schools)
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Civil-rights protest in 1965 in Alabama. In an effort to register black voters in the South, protesters marched from Selma to Montgomery. The protesters finally achieved their goal, walking around the clock for three days to reach Montgomery. The historic march, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s participation in it, raised awareness of the difficulties faced by black voters, and the need for a national Voting Rights Act.
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prohibited literacy tests and poll taxes, plus authorized the use of federal registrars to register voters if states failed to respect the fifteenth amendment
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