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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was established to fight for civil rights
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Nine African American teenagers were falsely accused of raping two white women on a train in Alabama. Supreme Court decision on right to trial.
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Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, overturning the "separate but equal" doctrine, desegragated schools
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legislation outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, ending segregation in public places and banning employment discrimination
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14-year-old African American boy from Chicago, was lynched in Mississippi after allegedly offending a white woman.
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Nine African American students faced violent resistance when integrating Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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first African American child to integrate an all-white elementary school in the South
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the first African American to play Major League Baseball
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Dr. King's letter from jail about nonviolent resistance to racism
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Black leader for human rights assassinated in New York City
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Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger, boycott of Montgomery buses led to a Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional
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Group that advocated for African American self-defense and community programs
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first African American Supreme Court Justice
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Civil Rights leader assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
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first African American President of the United States