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CORE was founded
- founded my students
- aimed to organize and execute peaceful, non-violent protests
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Jackie Robinson was drafted to the MLB
- he was the 1st black player in the MLB
- played for the Dodgers
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Executive order 9981
- desegregated the military
- signed under Truman’s presidency
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Desegregation of armed forces
- desecrated the military for all backgrounds
- prior, many refused to return to fighting in segregated armed forces
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Brown vs. board of education ruling
- The NAACP pushed for desegregating schools and public places
- Brown and the NAACP won, and all schools and public places were legally desegregated
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Montgomery bus boycott
- Sparked by the unjust arrest of Rosa Parks
- aimed to protest the unjust segregation of public transportation
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Integration of central high school
- the governor of Arkansas mobilized the national guard to prevent 9 African American students from entering the high school, however; President Eisenhower sent federal troops to help escort the 9 students into the building.
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The hate that hate produced aired
- documentary about black nationalism in America
- primarily focused on the Nation of Islam
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First lunch counter sit-in
- young African American students were denied service at a a restaurant, so they proceeded to sit in at the counter, further preventing the business from bringing in new customers
- set off a nationwide “trend”
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Freedom riders
- civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into segregated states in an effort to spread support for desegregation
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Birmingham campaign
- led by MLK, James Bevel, Fred Shuttlesworth, and many others
- was a series of protests that resulted in a change in the city’s discrimination laws
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The march on Washington
- a highlight of the civil rights movement
- thousands of activists marched in Washington DC to push for desegregation and equality among all
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Civil rights act of 1964
- part of the 14th admendment
- banned all forms of desegregation throughout the United States
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Voting rights act of 1965
- prohibited racial discrimination in voting
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Watts riot
- sparked from a fight between an African American driver and a cop
- led to a total of 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, and 3,438 arrests
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Founding of the Black Panther Party
- radical, revolutionary, political party pushing for equality
- founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton
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Civil rights act of 1968
-prohibited discrimination in selling, financing, and renting houses based on race and religion -
The formation of the congressional black caucus party
- formed to ensure equal treatment and opportunity for all races.
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Swann vs Charlotte Mecklenburg
- Supreme Court case
- aimed to speed up the integration of all races in public schools
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Roots aired
- show about a slave who is abducted from his African village and transferred to the United States
- he goes to witness several notable historical events
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Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke
- Supreme Court case
- ruled out university’s diversity “quotas”
