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- https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement
- https://www.infoplease.com/spot/civil-rights-timeline
- https://www.thoughtco.com/civil-rights-movement-timeline-1951-to-1959-45418
- https://www.thoughtco.com/civil-rights-movement-timeline-45361

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1. Who was the NAACP?
2. When was the interracial marriage law introduced?

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NAACP
- In the NAACP’s early decades, its anti-lynching campaign was central to its agenda. During the civil rights era in the 1950s and 1960s, the group won major legal victories, and today the NAACP has more than 2,200 branches and some half a million members worldwide.

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Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States

- The Heart of Atlanta Motel in Atlanta, Georgia, refused to accept Black Americans. The government sought to enjoin the motel from discriminating on the basis of race under Title II.

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Bailey V. Patterson
- That no State may require racial segregation of interstate or intrastate transportation facilities has been so well settled that it is foreclosed as a litigable issue, and a three-judge court was not required to pass on this case.

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Brown V. Board of Education
- Consisted of five different cases combined into one to go to the Supreme Court. The effort was to stop segregation in public schools, while some schools followed this new agreement many schools did not and remained segregated.

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Bus Boycott
- The infamous situation that Rosa Parks faced, when she refused to give up her seat to a white fellow, on an Alabama public bus. Leading to her being imprisoned and the start of the fight for civil rights to all African Americans, beginning with the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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Little Rock Nine
- Nine African American students tried to integrate with the white students at Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas. In effort to do so the white students refused to let them in, but yelling foul words at them

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Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
- MLK was one of the biggest civil rights activists of the 20th century.
- He led many peaceful protests and demonstrations for the good of his cause.

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Loving V. Virginia Case
- Interracial marriage laws were overturned by the Supreme Court, making it legal for different races to marry.
- Interracial marriage has become a normal thing since then.

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The First National Black Political Convention
- The National Black Political Assembly gathered around ten thousand African Americans to discuss political issues faced by blacks.
- They wanted to raise the number of black politicians and black representation in the government.

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Roots
- Roots was a 1976 novel and a 1977 miniseries t.v. show that showed the struggles that African Americans endured.
- It captured the attention of millions and won 9 Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and a Golden Globe.

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Patricia Roberts Harris
- Harris became the first African American women to hold a cabinet position with Jimmy Charter.
- She called for help for the poor and to put an end to discriminatory housing.

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Muhammad Ali defeats Leon Spinks
- When Ali defeated Spinks he became the first boxer to win the heavyweight champion three times.
- This marked a big moment for boxing history and African Americans in sports.