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Brown won. Public schools were no longer segregated but were fully "equal". It violated the U.S. constitution which made segregation illegal.

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Pete Hernandez was found guilty for "murder" in court. People believe it was racially motivated because the jury was white and the 14th amendment only protected blacks and whites, not Mexicans. The court held that the 14th amendment protects people beyond white and blacks.

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A protest that lasted 13 months, it started by Rosa Parks and African American seamstress refusing to give up her seat for a white passenger; she was arrested. It ended with the U.S supreme court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.

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The Little Rock Nine is a group of African American kids who volunteered to enroll in Cential Highschool. They weren't given access to go to school because of the governor wouldn't allow them. President Eisenhower sent troops to protect them and enforce the courts decision

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President Eisenhower signed the bill into a law, it established the U.S Civil Rights Commission and gave it power to investigate violations of the Civil Rights. It also empowered the U.S attorney General to bring lawsuits to address civil rights violations. Also gave the attorney general greater power to protect the voting rights of African Americans.

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4 African American students ordered donuts and coffee at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. A white waitress refused service, to protest discrimination the 4 students sat at the lunch counter and waited until closing time. Places all around started staging sit-ins and had marches to protest racial inequality.

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The freedom riders where groups of African Americans and whites who would participate in bus trips through the South. They would use "white only" restrooms, restaurants, etc. They were confronted numerous times by arresting officers and violent white protesters. The Interstate Commerce Commission issues regulations prohibiting segregation in interstate transit terminals. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-rides

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James Meredith ( an African American) tried to enroll at an all white school "Ole Miss". This resulted in many riots and ciaos throughout the college. It resulted with 2 people dead from the riots and in June 1966 Meredith made a protest march called "March Against Fear".

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The 24th amendment outlawed the poll tax as a requirement in federal elections. This mainly affected the African American community as they didn't have much money already they had to pay to vote as well. The poll tax targeted African Americans to institute segregation, but this amendment ended that.
https://history.house.gov/HistoricalHighlight/Detail/37045

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A letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. while he was imprisoned. The letter demanded desegregation to bring liberty and justice equally to white and black people. IN Birmingham and eventually the United States.

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300,000 protesters gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for jobs and freedom. It was the largest civil rights demonstration in history. The march was televised and made a huge impact on the congressional passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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A bombing exploded before Sunday morning services at the 16th street Baptist Church. 4 young girls were killed and many people were injured. It was the 3rd bombing after a federal court order had come down mandating the integration of Alabama's school system.
https://www.history.com/topics/1960s/birmingham-church-bombing

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Did you know Addie Mae Collins lost an eye from the bombing?

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The act banned segregation in public accommodations and gave the federal government the ability to compel state and local school boards to desegregate their schools. It also allowed the Justice department to prosecute individuals who violated peoples civil rights

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This was a voter registration drive aimed to increase the number of African American voters in Mississippi. 3 volunteers got murdered and their names got spread throughout the United States while people were looking for their killer.

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The killer was the leader of the Klu Klux Klan, and the leader had help and protection from a local policeman?

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This act established social programs to help education, health and employment to help impoverished Americans. It was signed by president Lyndon B. Johnson.

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Also known as "Bloody Sunday", John Lewis led over 600 marchers over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. The march happened because of on February 18, 1965, in Marion. In Marion, state troopers clubbed protestors and shot 26-year-old Jimmie Lee Jackson, a demonstrator trying to protect his mother.
https://www.history.com/news/selma-bloody-sunday-attack-civil-rights-movement

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This aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from their right to vote even though it was guaranteed under the 15th amendment.

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President Lyndon B. Johnson issued this, it requires all government contractors to take action to expand job opportunities for minorities, it was to help African Americans get jobs and to make sure jobs were free of racial bias.

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It was a social movement that wanted safety that wasn't available inside African American neighborhoods . African Americans founded black-owned bookstores, food cooperatives, farms, media, schools, etc.

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They were the most deadliest and destructive riots in the U.S history. After 5 days, 43 were found dead, 342 injured, nearly 1,400 buildings burned and 7,000 troops were sent in.