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It came as an immediate response to police brutality but underlying conditions including segregated housing and schools and rising black unemployment helped drive the anger of the rioters.
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Constitutional law of the U.S. Supreme court, upheld state racial segregation laws.
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A court case where the court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional
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Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14
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Sat on a bus and refused to give up her seat so a guy could take it and she would have to walk
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Political and social against the policy of racial segregation in Montgomery Alabama.
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Were a series of non violent protests which led to Woolworth removing its policy of of racial segregation in the south.
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Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern U.S. in 1961
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, was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the integration efforts of African American
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The march of Washington was For Jobs and and freedom
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress.
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US labor law that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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On 25 March 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma,
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Aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from having their right to vote
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He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs
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Was racial segregation especially in publuic schools
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He guided the litigation that destroyed the legal underpinnings of Jim Crow segregation. His exploits earned him the appellation “Mr. Civil Rights.”
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was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist
