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Abolished slavery unless punishment for crime

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Granted citizenship to former slaves

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Granted freedmen the right to vote

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Broke the color barrier in the MLB

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All races could serve together in the Armed Forces

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14 year old, Emmett Till was brutally murdered after fliting with a caucasian woman

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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat in the "Whites Only" section of the bus

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A group of 9 African American students enrolled at Little Rock Central High School that was escorted into the school following the national desegregation of schools

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Four black students enrolled at North Carolina A&T were denied service because they sat at the white counter

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7 blacks and 6 whites rode on two public buses from Washington DC headed south. This tested the Boynton v Virginia case that ruled segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional

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African Americans fought for civil rights in Birmingham

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April 1963: Letter from a Birmingham Jail

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April 1963: Letter from a Birmingham Jail

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MLK wrote to other civil rights leaders while incarcerated in Birmingham

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An African American civil rights rally in Washington DC

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Banned segregation in public places and discrimination in the work place

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Prohibited voting poll taxes

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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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Prohibited discrimination in voting polls

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Fair Housing Act

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Martin Luther King Jr. was shot outside his hotel room in Memphis TN

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A supreme court case that found that Amish children could not be forced to attend school after 8th grade because it interfered with their 1st amendment right: freedom of religion

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A Supreme court case about abortion