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8 Ku Klux Klan (KKK) Kyklos “Circle of Brothers” 1865, Tennessee Confederate soldiers White supremacy Targeted freedmen & allies Burned houses, attacked & killed 3 waves: 1965, 1915, 1950s Medgar Evers 1925-1963 1964 Civil Rights leaders murdered 4 girls killed in Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama Billie Holiday ‘Strange Fruit

9 Brown vs. Board of Education 1954 Supreme Court rules all schools, in all states are to be “desegregated” or integrated. Topeka, Kansas Nina Simone – I Wish I Knew How it Felt to Be Free

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11 December 1 st 1956 arrested Boycott lasted until December 20 th 1956, 381 days, Supreme Court rules to end segregation on buses. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led boycotts We Shall Overcome – Louis Armstrong

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13 Woolworth Lunch Counter 1960 Jackson, MS Sam Cooke – A Long Time Coming

14 Malcolm X & Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Debate

15 Bob Dylan – The Times are A-Changin’

16 Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On

17 Fight the Power 1989 – Public Enemy Fight the Power Man in the Mirror 1988 – Michael Jackson Man in the Mirror

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