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A fixed/biased court case that highlighted the bad traits of racial segregation. The African American boy accused lost on a decision of 7-1.
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An African-American civil rights group of people who provide help and assurance to all African-Americans in need in the U.S. A major organization for African-Americans in the jim crow segregation ages.
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Ended racial school segregation by a court case.
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A supreme court justice and civil rights follower who helped stop the jim crow segregation laws.
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A 14 year old African-American who was lynched because he was talking to a white women down south in a "rude" way. This event stirred up the civil rights movements.
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After the Rosa Parks incident, a boycott from African Americans towards the public bus system began.
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A NAACP officer who sat in a an all white bus who refused to give up her seat to a white person.
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9 African American boys who were allowed to enroll into a white high school. But the governor still tried to not let the kids into the school.
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4 African American people who sat at a white only counter at a diner. They sat there to try to attack the current time social ideas about segregation.
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13 African Americans who started bus trips that went around the segregated south promoting racial equality.
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Marked the beginning of many civil reforms like the public bus boycott and the sit-ins. Many of the white Southerners revolted violently on these reform attempts.
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200,000 people went to Washington D.C. to watch MLK's famous speech "I have a Dream" also promoting racial equality.
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An American baptist preacher who motivated and encouraged equal rights for all. Contributed to ending segregation. Also gave the March on Washington speech.
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Prohibits federals to allow poll taxes in elections.
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Banned segregation in public places and also banned employment discrimination.
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Known as a black nationalist leader who promoted Islam, at the time Americans didn't approve. He eventually got assassinated.
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A protest march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama demanding for African-American voting rights. There were many people infuriated about this.
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Prior to this act, African Americans were very discriminated and weren't allowed to vote. But now since the act they're not allowed to be discriminated when voting is involved.
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De jure segregation is segregation by law, very unequal. But De Facto segregation is segregated but equal.
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The Black Panther Party helped protect minorities from the government, for example the African-Americans.
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In Detroit, living conditions for African-Americans were very poor, so they revolted demanding better living conditions and general better treatment.
