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It said that Separate but equal was okay.
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This established 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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Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus.
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When Rosa Parks did not give up her seat to a white man that had asked, and was arrested. This lead to many active racial opinions, which caused riots.
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The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine black students who were enrolled into an all white school, which the United States Military was there escort or protect them from danger or riots.
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Sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina
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Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States.
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A movement with the purpose to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama.
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More than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C. for a political rally
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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.
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US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little and later also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist.
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Prevented African Americans to use their right to vote under the 15th amendment to the constitution of the United States.
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De jure segregation is separation enforced by law, while de facto segregation occurs when widespread individual preferences, sometimes backed up with private pressure, lead to separation.
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Violent public disorders that turned into a civil disturbance across the nation.
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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Won the Nobel Prize, Martin Luther king used the beliefs of Gandhi Randolph and Thoreau. He based his ideas on their teachings, he learned refusal of an unjust law.
