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Civil Rights in the 1960s §Freedom Riders, Ol’ Miss, and Birmingham §The March on Washington §LBJ and Civil Rights §Legislating Civil Rights: 1964-65 §Black Power §Nixon and Civil Rights: The Triumph of Conservatism
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Freedom Rides 1961
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After fire-bombing
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Federal troops guarding the riders
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James Meredith and The University of Mississippi
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Birmingham
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The March on Washington 1963
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Lyndon B. Johnson and Civil Rights
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§Civil Rights Act of 1964: Outlawed discrimination in hotels, restaurants and public accommodations.
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Lyndon B. Johnson and Civil Rights §Civil Rights Act of 1964: Outlawed discrimination in hotels, restaurants and public accommodations. §24th Amendment: outlawed poll taxes in federal elections.
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Lyndon B. Johnson and Civil Rights §Civil Rights Act of 1964: Outlawed discrimination in hotels, restaurants and public accommodations. §24th Amendment: outlawed poll taxes in federal elections. §Voting Rights Act of 1965: outlawed literacy tests, removed obstacles to voter registration, and sent federal inspectors into South to make sure states complied.
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Black Power §Urban Race Riots: 1965-1967
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Black Power §Urban Race Riots: 1965-1967 §Stokely Charmichael and SNCC: 1966
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Black Power §Urban Race Riots: 1965-1967 §Stokely Charmichael and SNCC: 1966 §H. Rap Brown and SNCC: 1967
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Black Power §Urban Race Riots: 1965-1967 §Stokely Charmichael and SNCC: 1966 §H. Rap Brown and SNCC: 1967 §Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and the Black Panthers
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The Black Panther Party
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Malcolm X
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April 4 1968 Memphis
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Richard Nixon and Civil Rights
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