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Nat´l Assoc.for the Advancement of Colored People
organization to assist people of color to economically,poltically -
UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT
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Executive 8802
signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 25, 1941, to prohibit ethnic or racial discrimination -
Executive 9981
President Harry S. Truman. It abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin -
BROWN vs. BOE TOPEKA,KA
was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality -
Emmett Tills death
was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman -
LITTLE ROCK CENTRAL H.S. AR
The school was the site of forced desegregation in 1957 -
Greensboro 4
Non violent protest in Greensboro. -
Congress of racial equality
African-American civil rights organization in the United States -
assassination of jfk
John Fitzgerald Kenned 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963 -
CHANEY,GOODMAN,& SCHWERNER MURDERS IN MS
involved three activists who were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi in June 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement. -
Selma to Montgomery Marches
Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery -
BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN'S CRUSADE
non-violent approach to fighting racial segregation, -
watts riot
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BLACK PANTHERS/HUEY NEWTON
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Assassination of mlk
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SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP COUNCIL/JAMES LAWSON
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assassination of rfk
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SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER
American nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation
