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which stated ¨it is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity.¨
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unanimously agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
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visiting family in Mississippi when he is kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot, and dumped in the Tallahassee River for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
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refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger, defying a southern custom of the time
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created the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) becomes a major force bases its principles on nonviolence and civil disobedience.
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Nine black students are blocked from entering the school on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus.
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student volunteers begin taking bus trips through the South to test out new laws that prohibit segregation in interstate travel facilities where they were attacked by angry mobs
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arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Ala.
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The bodies of three civil-rights workers—two white, one black—are found in an earthen dam, James E. Chaney, 21; Andrew Goodman, 21; and Michael Schwerner, 24
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in Oakland, Calif. the militant Black Panthers are founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.
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MLKJ was shot and killed convict and committed racist James Earl Ray is convicted of the crime.
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upholds busing as a legitimate means for achieving integration of public schools.
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The first race riots in decades erupt in south-central Los Angeles after a jury acquits four white police officers for the videotaped beating of African American Rodney King.
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Edgar Ray Killen, is convicted of manslaughter on the 41st anniversary of the crimes.
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Emmett Till's 1955 murder case, reopened by the Department of Justice in 2004, is officially closed
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n the Supreme Court case Ricci v. DeStefano, a lawsuit brought against the city of New Haven, 18 plaintiffs—17 white people and one Hispanic—argued that results of the 2003 lieutenant and captain exams
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the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, which established a formula for Congress to use when determining if a state or voting jurisdiction requires prior approval before changing its voting laws
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A new museum, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, opens in Atlanta.
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civil rights investigation into police practices in Ferguson, Mo. where a Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by a white police officer
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avoiding a civil rights lawsuit. The agreement will necessitate the levying of new taxes to pay for the planned improvements and require local vote.
