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Kayla Randall, Kierra Colquitt, Crystal Woods, Timothy Criswell Period 4

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Kayla Randall, Kierra Colquitt, Crystal Woods, Timothy Criswell Period 4

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March on Washington and Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech

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March on Washington and Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech

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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. Attended by some 250,000 people, it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital, and one of the first to have extensive. "The American Dream" and religious themes, speaking of an America where his children "will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." He followed this with an exhortation to "let freedom ring" across the nation. -Kayla Randall

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Malcolm X, Black Panther Party, and other alternative civil rights movement approaches

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Malcolm X, Black Panther Party, and other alternative civil rights movement approaches

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In 1954, the United States Supreme Court declared public school segreagation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education. One year later the Court reiterated its ruling calling on school districts throughout the United States to desegregate their public schools “with all deliberate speed.” While some school districts began developing strategies to resist public school desegregation, school officials at Little Rock,Arkansas stated that they would comply with the Supreme Court's ruling.

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Sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and Freedom Summer 

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Sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and Freedom Summer 

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Freedom Summer was a nonviolent effort by civil rights activists to integrate Mississippi's segregated political system during 1964. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) decided to recruit several hundred northern college students, mostly white, to work in Mississippi during the summer. They helped African-American residents try to register to vote, establish a new political party, and learn about history and politics in newly-formed Freedom Schools. -Kayla Randall

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The Voting Rights Act of 1965---this act was created to enforce the voting rights previously guaranteed by the 14th Amendment 

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The Voting Rights Act of 1965---this act was created to enforce the voting rights previously guaranteed by the 14th Amendment 

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This act, like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ensured voting rights for all citizens, including African Americans or former slaves. With this act, no one could be denied the privilege to vote unless there are certain legal circmstances.

-Kierra C.

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott, a seminal event in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 1, 1955—when Rosa Parks,an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person—to December 20, 1956, when a federal ruling, Browder v. Gayle, took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional

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Brown v. Board of Education (1954), now acknowledged as one of the greatest
Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century, unanimously held that the racial
segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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This 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. It stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African-American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, breaking a Louisiana law. -Kayla Randall

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail

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The purpose of Dr.King's letter was to let people know about

the injustice that the US had. Dr King broke the law in which he

thought was wrong and he voluntarly went to jail to better .
T.W.Criswell,II

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Civil Rights Act of 1964---outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964---outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 basically seconded the 14th Amendment which ensured citizenship rights regardless of race (former slaves).

-Kierra C.

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President Truman's Desegregation of the Armed Forces

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President Truman's Desegregation of the Armed Forces

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1. On July 26, 1948,President Harry S.Truman  signed this executive order establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, committing the government to integrating the segregated military. The way this has affected the USA is by allowing all men weather black or white to join the armed forces

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14th Amendment---granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. 

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14th Amendment---granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. 

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This meant that everyone within the U.S, no matter what race had all privelleges of American citizenship.
-Kierra C.