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Act which outlawed discrimination against race, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Supreme court case, that enforced segregation. "Separate but Equal".
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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A court case which stated that separate schools for blacks and whites was unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man, and was arrested.From this moment on blacks boycotted Montgomery Buses.
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Enrolled 9 black children into an all white school, after the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
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Four African American students sat at a "white-only" lunch counter, as a non-violent protest.
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Civil Rights activist that would ride buses into segregated southern states.
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Largest Political Rally in the U.S. for Human Rights. This is the Rally where MLK had spoken.
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Movement in Birmingham, Alabama to bring attention to integration efforts by African-Americans. Although it was a non-violent protest, many African-Americans were attacked by law enforcement.
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Gandhi influenced MLK to use non-violent protest against the government. Henry David Thoreau has lead MLK to resist immoral government actions without cooperating. Randolph had proposed the idea of having a March on Washington.
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White police officer killed 15-year-old african american boy, which immediately raised a rally of over 300 african american students.
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Prohibits poll tax on voters.
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American-Muslim minister and Human Rights Activist.
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MLK and the SCLC marched from Selma to Montgomery in order to bring the focus on being able to register African-Americans to vote.
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Racial segregation, people are segregated by society and not by law.
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When Lyndon B Johnson overcame the 15th amendment and allowed African Americans the right to vote.
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A group, made up of minorities, that practiced militant self-defense, to go against the government.
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First African-American Supreme Court Justice.
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Refused to give up her bus seat to a black man and was arrested for it. People boycotted the buses, until they allowed blacks and whites to both equally sit on the bus.
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African-American Boy that was killed for flirting with a white girl.
