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The NAACP was established in February 1909 in New York City by an interracial group of activists, partially in response to the 1908 Springfield race riot in Illinois.
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nine African American teenagers were accused of raping two white women aboard a Southern Railroad freight train in northern Alabama.
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After a successful season with the minor league Montreal Royals in 1946, Robinson officially broke the major league color line
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14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier.
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
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the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white
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The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
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White Mobs Violently Riot Against Six-Year-Old Ruby Bridges Integrating Elementary School
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President John Kennedy asked Congress for a comprehensive civil rights bill,
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"Letter from Birmingham City Jail" and "The Negro Is Your Brother", is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr.
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Throughout 1964, his conflict with the Nation of Islam intensified, and he was repeatedly sent death threats.
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Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party
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Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American to be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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In 2008, he was nominated by the Democratic Party for president a year after beginning his campaign,