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Thirteenth Amendment
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Fourteenth Amendment
Anyone born in the U.S. was considered a citizen -
Fifteenth Amendment
Everyone can vote now -
Excutive Order 9981
Ended racism in the military -
Brown v. Board of Education
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Ruby Bridges Death
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Murder of Emmitt Till
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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SCLC was founded
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Little Rock Nine
9 black kids attended Little Rock Central High School -
Greensboro Sit-in's
Four young African Americans sat in white only seats and refused to get up when told to get up so whites could sit there -
SNCC was founded
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Freedom Rides
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Letter from Birmingham Jail
Was a letter from MLK Jr. from a jail in Birmingham -
Murder of Medgar Evers
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Bombing of Birmingham
A racist bombed a mainly black church -
Murder of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner
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Malcolm X was assassinated
Malcolm X was one of the most famous black leader during the civil rights movement -
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Bloody Sunday
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Voting Right of 1965
Allowed African Americans the right to vote -
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Watts Riots
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Executive Order 11246
No longer allowed discrimination while hiring -
Black Panthers were founded
The Black Panthers were created for self defense, to protect blacks from the racist/government -
Loving v. Virginia
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Newark and Detroit race riots
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Memphis Sanitation workers strike
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Civil Rights Acts of 1968
Also so known as the Fair Housing Act the civil rights act of 1968 was made to provide equal housing opportunities -
Tommie Smith and John Carlos black power Olympic salute
After just coming in 1st and 3rd in the Olympics Tommie Smith and John Carlos were in a position to make a stand. So they did they threw there fist to the sky to represent Black Power -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
