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Jim Crow Laws
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1947 Truman Desegregates Military
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Dixiecrats & Strom Thurmond
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Brown V Board of Ed. Thurgood Marshall 1954
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Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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Sit Ins
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Little Rock Nine September 1957
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Never let them see you cry.
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Freedom Rides 1961
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George Wallace
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Birmingham
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Bull Conner
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James Meredith
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“I Have A Dream” Aug. 28, 1963
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Civil Rights Act 1964 Outlawed discrimination in employment Equal access to public accommodations and schools Created the Equal Opportunity Commission
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Selma March 1965
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Voting Rights Act 1965 Outlawed literacy tests Authorized the attorney general to send federal examiners to help with registrations Coincided with 24 th amendment that prohibited poll taxes
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Malcolm X "The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself." -- Malcolm X (Speech, 1964
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Stokely Carmichael
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Black Panthers Original six Black Panthers (November, 1966) Top left to right: Elbert "Big Man" Howard; Huey P. Newton (Defense Minister), Sherman Forte, Bobby Seale (Chairman). Bottom: Reggie Forte and Little Bobby Hutton (Treasurer
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Watts Riot August 1965
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April 4, 1968
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Chicano Movement
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AIM
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Alcatraz Wounded Knee
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