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The Relocation of Japanese-Americans, 1942–1946. Crowd behind barbed wire fence at the Santa Anita Assembly Center in California, wave to friends on train departing for various relocation centers located throughout the United States -
President Truman gave an executive order to desegregate the nation's armed forces.
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Japanese immigrants were able to become US citizens, however they still faced a lot of bias and backlash.
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The Supreme Court ruled that state-sponsored segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
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Helped begin a movement to desegregate buses - led to Montegomery Bus Boycot. -
This act prohibited racial discrimination in voting, leading to a significant increase in Black voter registration and participation in the South.
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Four black students sat at the “whites only” Woolworth lunch counter, and a woman had applauded them for standing up for their rights, saying she only wished they had done it 10 years earlier.
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Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old, was the first African-American child to attend a white school. -
A protest to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at this protest. -
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial 'outside agitator' idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider"
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Dr. King and President Johnson talk about the violence going on in the Watts Rebellion.“... I just don’t see a willingness even on the part of the mayor to grant just a few concessions to make—to bring about a new sense of hope. Now, what is frightening about it is that you hear all of these tones of violence. The people out there in the Watts area, they’d assumed the National Guard indeed were going back in. The minute that happens there will be retaliation in the White community this time."
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The Supreme Court declared laws against interracial marriage unconstitutional.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, when he was fatally shot by James Earl Ray while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.This chart shows his impact on the people in how they feel about him. -
Segregation in schools was brought up to court by Julius Chambers
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This graph shows the amount of drug arrests by race. -
Many blacks were voted as mayors across the country, which greatly increased over the next 15 years.
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A black motorist got pulled over by white cops, and they started to beat him, it was filmed and made national television.
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Obama was the first black man to be made president of the US.
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A social movement that fights racism and anti-Black violence.
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A black teenager was shot and killed by a white officer, which sparked many protests.
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Juneteenth was made a national holiday. It commemorated the end of slavery.