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A Supreme Court case that banned separate but equal laws. Linda Brown and her lawyer Thurgood Marshall won the case.
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After Rosa Parks went to jail black people started to not ride the buses. Since the buses were starting to lose money they eventually allowed blacks to sit any where.
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This act gets rid of discrimination laws in voting. Such as a literature test to rid of black voters.
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Four college students sat in the "whites only"
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Fought for equal bus rights. Though they got arrested for doing so. By the end of the summer in 1961 three hundred and twenty-eight (328) Riders got arrested.
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Famous speech cause segregation to be banned. The speech includes him talking about how he sees the future though his eyes.
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This act outlawed discrimination based on race, religion, and gender. Thou President Kennedy was assassinated, Lyndon Johnson signed it.
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Made black men able to vote. Though many vote stations in the South weren't so kind about it.
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A group founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Boddy Seale in Oakland, California. Its main goal was to protect blacks from police violence. Later it turned into a violent group that tried to over throw the United States government with guerrilla tactics.
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12th street rebellion caused many arrest for the blacks. Many stores were looted or burned and $287 million dollars in damage to the city.
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James Earl Ray was guilty to assassinating MLK. His motivation is still unclear even though it has been thought that he wanted attention.
