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Slavey was outlawed in the United States unless for punishment
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Former slaves and all African Americans in the United States granted equal rights and citizenship
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The right to vote of all U.S. citizens shall not be denied by the United States
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Founded by Booker T. Washington to promote the economic progress of his race
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The Supreme Court ruled Separate but equal was constitutional discriminating against colored people
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Advance the priorities of colored people by unity under an organization
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The right to vote of any U.S. citizen shall not be denied because of gender
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The military is desegregated
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Helped to integrate schools in the U.S. and helped defeat the separate but equal laws
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Colored people boycotted the public buses and showed their retaliation to segregated seating on the buses.
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A civil rights organization founded as an offshoot of the Montgomery Improvement Association
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Nine colored students enrolled at Little Rock Central High School who were initially denied by the state governor
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Ensured the protection of all citizens right to vote
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A civil rights act in which colored students staged a sit in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina
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Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated United States
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A letter after Martin Luther King Jr where he writes about defending his advocacy for nonviolent protest in as resistance to racism
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A march in Washington to advocate the rights of colored people in the U.S.
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Marchers protested peacefully for the rights of colored people across America
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Eliminated all abilities for southern states to make voting harder for people of color such as literacy tests before voting
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Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee at 6:01 PM