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Enslaved people were allowed to gather in Congo Square, New Orleans on Sunday afternoons. This is where Jazz music was born, because it was the only place where the enslaved people were allowed to play their traditional music.

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Frederick Douglass was born in 1818, escaped from slavery in 1838, and lived the rest of his life as an abolitionist.

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Ron McNair refuses to leave the library until he is able to check out books on his own. He grew up to be the first African American astronaut who went to space!

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The Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in, when four college students staged a peaceful protest and refused to get up from the segregated lunch counter. This inspired a series of sit-in protests around the country.

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Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Christine Darden overcame gender and racial barriers and made history working for NASA.

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Children marched in a weeklong nonviolent protest known as the Children's Crusade. Children were arrested and put into jail for protesting. By May 10th, the process of desegregation had begun.

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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was held in Washington DC, and Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

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At age 116, Mary Walker, who had been born into slavery, learned to read and became the oldest student.

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Richard and Mildred loving took their case to the Supreme Court and won, making interracial marriage legal in Virginia.

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Katherine Johnson, working as a computer for NASA, helps the Apollo 13 land safely back on Earth.

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Chuck Ealy had won every high school and college level football game as a quarterback, but wasn't allowed to play for the NFL because of the color of his skin. He moved to Canada to play football there and was named the MVP.

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Lonnie Johnson invents the Super Soaker water gun.

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Mae Jemison became the first African American woman in space aboard the Endeavour on mission STS47.