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The Supreme Court case that upheld the separate but equal doctrine.
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The youth during the 60's was very adamant about being the change the world needed. In Detroit for example, blacks started rioting for equal rights. This ended brutally and violently.
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Legal segregation in schools was dismissed.
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This idea imposed the difference of "Rights by law" and "God-Given rights" .
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Four days before Rosa Park's brave move, the African American people of Montgomery, Alabama had planned to yield their seat on the bus, in which Park's was arrested and gained national media attention.
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Nine black students enrolled in a formerly all-white school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Non-violent student sit-ins to raise awareness of the intensity of segregation in the United States.
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Known as "Freedom riders", these civil rights activists rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States.
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This peaceful march was led by MLK in an attempt to show White America that Blacks of the time needed to remove segregation.
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In Alabama, Blacks from all over came to protest segregation and impose integration. The SCLC and MLK worked hard to prove a point which led to retaliation from the Police.
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The government abolished the poll tax for federal elections.
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The legislation passed in 1964 that outlawed the discrimination of race, sex, gender, religion, color, or national origin.
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Lyndon Johnson aimed to overcome legal barriers for voting rights at a state level.
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Martin Luther King led an intense 54- mile walk to prove to segregation supporters that the African American community would not stop at any cost in order to get their rights.
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