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Thoreau
Civil disobedience writings -
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Gandhi
Peaceful leader in India -
Plessy v. Ferguson
1896 legalized segregation-seperate but equal -
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People(NAACP)
1909-started to end segregation -
Thurgood Marshall
1938 Lawyer for NAACP -
The Sit-Ins
1942 Core did 1st peaceful sit-in protest -
Little Rock School Integration
1948 1st southern state to admit African's to Universities -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
1954 school desegregation -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
1955 1 year African American stopped riding buses -
Rosa Parks
1955-Bus protest -
Emmett Till
A black young who was brutality murdered at the age of 14 in a racist act -
Freedom Rides
1961 protesting segregation on interstate bus routes -
March on Washington
1963 march to Washington for Dream of Equality -
Dr.Martin Luther King Jr
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
1964 Prohibit discrimination of race,religion,and order -
24th Amendment
1964 Eliminated poll taxes -
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1965 eliminated literacy test for voting -
Races Riots
1965 urban violence -
Dejure vs De Facto segregation
1965 Segreation by low or by custom
