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Abolished slavery unless for punishment for a crime
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prohibits the government and each state from denying the right to vote based on race or color
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Tuskegee University was formed on this day in Tuskegee, Alabama
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Creation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Gave women the right to vote, or denied sexual voting discrimination
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This order abolished discrimination in the United States Armed Forces.
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Racial segregation in school is unconstitutional.
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Bus boycott to protest segregation on buses.
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Group of nine black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference was formed on this day in Atlanta, GA.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was formed on this day
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Four students sat down at a lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, the official policy was to refuse service to anyone but whites. However, the four young men refused to give up their seats
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Civil rights activists rode buses into the segregated United States
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MLK gave his speech at the march on Washington
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Prohibits racial discrimination in voting in the US
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This date was when the Black Panthers were formed in Oakland.
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MLK was killed on this day in a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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"separate but equal", racial segregation is constitutional as long as blacks are "equal"
