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Civil War
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Passage of the 15th Amendment.
Prohibits denying someone the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
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World War I
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Passage of the 19th Amendment
Can’t deny anyone the right to vote on the basis of sex -
Billie Holiday records “Strange Fruit”
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World War II
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Korean War
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus and gets arrested.
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Judge orders Arkansas schools to integrate
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Minniejean Brown expelled from Little Rock High School
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Ernest Green graduates from Little Rock High School
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Governor Faubus closed the schools to avoid integration
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Little Rock Schools reopen - ready to integrate
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Ruby Bridges
Became the first African American child to integrate a white southern elementary school -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Passage of the 26th Amendment
Prohibits using age as a reason to deny someone the right to vote provided that person is at least 18