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Booker T. Washington
The 'Accomodationist' -
13th Amendment
Abolition of Slavery -
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Reconstruction Amendments
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W.E.B Du Bois
'The Talented Tenth' -
Fourteenth Amendment
Equal protection under the law -
Fifteenth Amendment
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Marcus Garvey
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NAACP Growth
50,556 --> 450,000 members -
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March on Washington Movement
Led by A Philip Randolph -
Race riots in Detroit
17 African Amerians shot dead by police; 0 whites -
Brown vs. Board of Education
"Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" -
Lynching of Emmett Till
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Formation of SCLC
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Little Rock
Autumn 1957: Orval Faubus (governor) opposed integration of LR's central high school using National Guard --> white mob --> Eisenhower intervened -
Student sit in
in Greensboro, NC -
Formation of SNCC
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Freedom Rides
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Albany Campaign
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Birmingham Campaign
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Children's Crusade
2-7 May -
March on Washington
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Freedom Vote
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Freedom Summer
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Freedom Summer Murders
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The Civil Rights Act
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Asssasination of Malcolm X
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Selma to Montgomery Marches
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Voting Rights Act
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MLK's 'A Time to Break Silence' Speech
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Spring Mobilisation, NY
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Memphis Campaign March
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MLK "I've been to the mountaintop" speech
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Assassination of Martin Luther King
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PPC disintegrated