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African american teenager beaten to death.
-The two white men who were charged with murder were acquitted from an all white jury. -
Period: to
Civil Rights Movement
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African American woman arrested for not giving up her seat in a bus
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King and civil rights leaders create the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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First legislative movement/action.
-More of a symbolic act
-It made the Civil Rights Commission look at the problem
-Gave out voting rights -
Nine black students try to atend a all white school
-School was located in Little Rock Arkansas -
Eisenhower signed into civil rights
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March on Washington
-250 000 supporters
-lead by Martin Luther King, Jr.
-I have a dream speach was givin -
Fair Housing Act
-Makes it unlawful to not sell property to coloured people or raise the price
