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Sweatt v. Painter: ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka: overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation
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Hernandez v. Texas: Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment
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Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest
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Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK
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Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba
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Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin
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Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
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24th Amendment
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Voting Rights Act of 1965: Eliminated literacy tests for voters
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Civil Rights Act of 1968: prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing
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First Man on the Moon
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Title IX: protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs
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Kent State University shooting
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Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation
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Camp David Accords
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Three Mile Island Disaster
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Iran Contra Affair