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1973
Decision by the United States supreme court to make it illegal to have an abortion.

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1946- 1949
First African American baseball player to pay in the MLB.

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May 15, 1972
Case in with the United States supreme court found that Amish children could not be placed under compulsery education past 8th grade.

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Defines housing discrimination as the “refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, religion, or national origin”. Title VIII of this Act is commonly referred to as the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

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April 4, 1968
MLK was assassinated due to his beliefs in the rights and freedom of African Americans.

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July , 1964
A federal agency that administers and enforces civil rights laws against workplace

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Aug 6, 1965
Aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States.

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A landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

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January 23, 1964
Prohibition of any poll tax in elections for federal officials.

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April 1963
Birmingham Protests was a movement organized in early 1963 to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans.

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April 16, 1963
Open letter written by MLK that defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism. It says that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws and take action rather then waiting for justice to be severed in court.

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April 12, 1963
MLK was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of black

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April 12, 1963
The Freedom Ride, a series of bus trips through the American sought to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals.

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February 1, 1960
Four black freshman at North Carolina A&T State University took seats at the segregated lunch. They were refused service and sat peacefully until the store closed.

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September 2,  1957
A group of courageous black students who integrated the Arkansas capital city's Central High School

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December 1, 1955
Rosa Parks refused to obey order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger.

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Aug 28, 1955
An African American teenager who was lynched for flirting with a white woman.

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July 31, 1948
Desegregated the Army from not allowing people to join due to their race or ethnicity.

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Feb 1870
Prohibited the deprivation of voting rights on the basis of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

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July 9, 1868
All people, regardless of race are citizens

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August 28, 1963
The march was successful in pressuring the administration of John F.Kennedy to initiate a strong federal civil rights bill in Congress.

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Dec 6, 1865
Amendment that abolished slavery