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Roosevelt bans discrimination in the defense industries

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February 28, 1963 over 200,000 people showed up from around the country to march to the capital in Washington D.C

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Race riots in Newark, New Jersey, and Detroit killed 43 people and resulted in $50 million in property damage.

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This was when Civil Rights Activists started to get more directly involved in their political rights.

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In the summer of l964, forty-one Freedom Schools opened in the churches, on the back porches, and under the trees of Mississippi.

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Jim Crow laws enforced strict separation of the races

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“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.” Malcolm X

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April 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is shot and killed in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Thus act banned literacy tests as a voting requirement. Also, empowered the federal government to supervise voter registration and elections.

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“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.”
Throughout Rosa Parks whole life she faught for equality, and continued to inspire others todo the same.

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“Separate but equal”

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First African American to attend University Of Mississippi

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First African American to attend University Of Mississippi

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James Meredith became the first African American student to integrate the University Of Mississippi after winning a federal case saying he has the right to attend in 1962.

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In 1962-1963 protesters started to put pressure on the government to break down segregation

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This law banned the poll tax, which had been used to keep African Americans in poverty from voting.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1960, made it illegal to obstruct someone attempting to vote or register to vote

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Supreme Court ruled that segregation on interstate buses and in waiting rooms was illegal.

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The march in Selma became violent quickly. Heavily armed state troopers attacked the marchers as they tried to cross the bridge.

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Brown v. Board of Education

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President Eisenhaur orders to desegregate High schools

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President Eisenhaur orders to desegregate High schools

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One of the first schools under this order was in Little Rock Arkansas there was so much backlash from the community the national guard had to come in and assist students and prevent any possible attack or harassment.

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A campaign to pressure the federal government to enact voting rights.

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The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama

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September 15, 1963 almost three weeks after the March, a bomb exploded on Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham killing 4 young African American Girls.

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“We shall overcome”

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On October 16, 1968 Tommie Smith and John Carlos first and third place winners in the 200 meter race. Raised their fists in the air during the national anthem. They used their platform to show black solidarity.

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Senator John F. Kennedy campaigned in 1960. Martin Luther King endorsed him.

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Protest Marches and Sit-in’s in Birmingham (1963)

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Protest Marches and Sit-in’s in Birmingham (1963)

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A major civil rights campaign in Birmingham. MLK became arrested from these protests.

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In 1963 JFK establishes the “ Equal Pay Act” which required equal pay for equal work in industries engaged in commerce or producing goods for commerce

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MLK held his “ I have a dream” speech on this famous march. In his speech he established an idea that people should be judged by their character and not their appearance.

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1948 Truman desegregated the military

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This act banned segregation in public accommodations

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Washington D.C., 1957 SCLC Organizes a prayer pilgrimage to help convince Congress to pass civil rights legislation

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February 21, 1965, Malcom X was assassinated in New York

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Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to join the  American Major League in 1947

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In the spring of 1961 activist rode buses through the Deep South. Segregationist attacked the buses.

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1968 Black Power Salute

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Roosevelt banned discrimination in defense

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November 22 JFK dies

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law that established a federal Civil Rights Commission to investigate violations of civil rights

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A major voice in both the civil rights movement and the NAACP, he was a major force behind Brown v. Board of Education and other Large cases(1954

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created the “separate but equal” law stating that facilities could be separate as long as they were equal. Even though this was in place, African Americam facilities were still not equal.

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In 1956, the Supreme Court ruled that the Montgomery City law that segregated buses was unconstitutional.

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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus, and was arrested.