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Homer plessy, an African american train passenger who refused to sit in a Jim crow car, Breaking a Louisiana law.
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an African-American civil rights organization in the United States
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Known as one of the greatest supreme court decisions in the 20th century
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De jure segregation is separation enforced by law, De facto is when widespread individual preferences lead to segregation
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He won the Brown v board of education case In which the supreme court ended racial segregation
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Flirted with a white women and then four days later two white men kidnapped him and beat then killed him.
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African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery
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Refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man.
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9 Black students enrolled in the formally all white central high school.
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African American Students sat at the counter that was reserved for whites only and when asked to leave, they politely and non violently refused.
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Laid the foundation of black power movement
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Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses Into the southern united states to protest.
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Activists in Alabama launched one of the best campaigns of the civil rights movement. It included lunch counter sit ins, marches on city hall, and boycotts on downtown
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More than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington D.C For a political rally for Freedom and jobs
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Prohibits any poll tax in elections for federal officials
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This act ended segregation in public places and got rid of employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin
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Aimed to Get rid of barriers that prevented African Americans from voting.
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Protesters attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery protesting for voting rights but were met with violent resistance by police
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minority communities against the U.S. government, who fought to establish revolutionary socialism through organizing and community based programs.
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A Detroit police raided an unlicensed bar, as the people in the bar were getting arrested 200 people gathered and started a riot against the police.
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Leaded the american civil rights movement and helped achieve racial equality
