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an interracial group aiming to end segregation and discrimination -
More than 35 city blocks were burned to the ground and hundreds of Black citizens were killed, erasing what was known as Black Wall Street, a booming center of Black ingenuity and promise. -
nine young African American men falsely accused of raping two white women on a train in Alabama in 1931 -
was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court which ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, even if the segregated facilities are equal in quality. -
a 14 year old black boy from Chicago lynched in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman sparking a national outrage -
the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
the Little Rock nine were nine African American students who became famous in 1957 for integrating Little Rock Central High School -
In 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges desegregated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans -
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail"argued for the urgent necessity of direct action and civil disobedience against unjust laws -
a massive, peaceful demonstration in Washington, D.C., where over 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to advocate for civil and economic rights for Black Americans -
The landmark Civil Rights Act was passed and signed into law on July 2, 1964, by President Lyndon B. Johnson, outlawing discrimination -
was landmark federal legislation that outlawed discriminatory voting practices, such as literacy tests and poll taxes, preventing widespread disenfranchisement, especially of African Americans in the South -
Malcolm X, a religious and civil rights leader, was assassinated during a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. -
Black Panther was created to address a serious lack of major Black American comic book superheroes -
Thurgood Marshall was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Lyndon B. Johnson on June 13, 1967, becoming the first African American Justice -
Martin Luther King Jr., an American civil rights activist, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. at age 39. -
he put on a dodgers uniform, number 42