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The Underground Railroad was a collection of secret routes that the Enslaved could risk their lives to make it to, these routes would often lead directly to safe houses and other places of refuge for them. The Underground Railroad lasted for decades.

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The Dred Scott decision was a case ruled out by the United States Supreme Court. This case decided that, at the time, African Americans were not looked at as United States citizens, and that many constitutional rights would be stripped from them because of this decision.

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The 13th Amendment was an addition to the United States Constitution which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, helping free many slaves and prevent more to become enslaved.

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The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866, this was a white supremacist terrorist group which had led out various attacks against the African American community living in the South at the time. These attacks included hangings, murder, arson, and much more. The group later separated from not only Racism, but had evolved into following homophobic, Islamophobic, anti-Semetic, anti-atheist, and many more views that involved discrimination.

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The NAACP was founded in 1909 in New York City. They had made pledges that promised to preserve the rights of all American citizens, and to gravitate towards the African American community especially due to the mistreatment they faced during the 19th and 20th century.

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The Great Migration took place in 1910. It was an event in which over 6 million African Americans living in the South had migrated to the North and West. The reason that this mass migration happened was because the African Americans were seeking to escape the racist land and find better jobs out of the South.

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The Harlem Renaissance was a movement that took place in order to revive African culture throughout the United States which consisted of bringing dance, art, music, literature, theatre, and politics to the African American community.

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On August 23, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. had successfully delivered his “I Have a Dream Speech, this was important because it had really let the general public know the importance of equality in the United States, it had really kicked the Civil Rights movement into full gear.

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The Civil Rights Act was a law that Congress had passed which outlawed any discrimination against people because of their race, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, and gender identity.

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In 2008, Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, this was important to Civil Rights because he was the first African American candidate to be elected as the President of the United States of America.