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The Emancipation Proclamation
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The Thirteenth Amendment
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The Fourteenth Amendment
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The NAACP
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President Harry S. Truman ends segregation
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Nine African-American students
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The Freedom Riders
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The Birmingham Campaign
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The March on Washington
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The Civil Rights Act
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Bloody Sunday
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Marchers in Selma
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Race riots erupt
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The Voting Rights Act
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Affirmative Action
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Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African-American Supreme Court Justice
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Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated
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The Fifteenth Amendment
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first African-American elected President