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Established the doctrine of "separate but equal.
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Supreme Court unanimously struck down segregation in schooling as an unconstitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection.
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Rosa Parks, and an NAACP office, took a set in the front row of the "colored" section of a Montgomery bus. Henry David Thoreau he took the concept of civil disobedience-the refusal to obey an unjust law. Labor organizer A.
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he was brutally murdered and his murderers were acquitted because he was black
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National Guard turned away the Nine African American students who had volunteered to integrate little rock central High Schools. A federal judge ordered Faubus to let the students in to school.
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African -American students from North Carolina's Agricultural and Technical College staged a sit in at a whites only lunch counter at a Woolworth's store in Greensboro.
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One of the civil right activists who rode buses through the south in early 1960s to challenge segregation.
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August 28 1963, more than 250,000 people-including about 75,000 white-converged on the nation's capital. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr 'I have a Dream.
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On April 3, 1963, king flew into Birmingham to hold a planning meeting. During A Demonstration on good Friday, April 12th.
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Won the Nobel peace prize. King used the beliefs of Ghandi, Thoreau and Randolph. He based his ideas on their teachings, Thoreau, he learned the refusal of an unjust law. From Ghandi he learned to resist oppression without violence and from Randolph he learned to organize massive demonstrations.
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A law that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin, or religion in public places and most workplaces.
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January 24, 1964 BARRING POLL TAXES.
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The act eliminated the so-called literacy tests that had disqualified many voters.
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50-mile protest march from Selma to Montgomery.
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De Facto segregation-That exists by practice and custom. De jure segregation,or segregation by law, because eliminating it requires changing people's attitudes rather than repealing laws. Malcolm X communities livelihoods, culture.
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He was the first African-american Supreme court justice.
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Riots and violent clashes took place in more than 100 cities.
