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The state of Virginia made miscegenation illegal
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E.D. Nixon led African Americans on a march to the registrars office for voting rights
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Mrs. Willametta Hawkins a white women forced McGee into an affair resulting in his death when McGee tried to break away
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Henry County Grand Jury takes the case without indictment
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Prevent African Americans from voting
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Viola White refused to give up her seat
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President Truman created the president's committee on civil rights (PCCR)
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Rosa parks gave a speech warning of federal civil rights promises
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Ruby Floyd a white woman accuses 7 African American males of rape resulting in their death
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Assaulted by police officers on her way home from partying
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Mark Ingram, an African American male, was accused of looking at an 18-year-old white woman when attempting to ask her father to borrow a trailer.
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African American women gather together to listen to each others horror stories
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Daisy Bates President of Arkansas NAACP branch
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North Carolina court dismissed the case against Mark Ingram
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White people burned homes, churches, and businesses of African Americans
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African Americans boycotted the public bus system organizing a system to safely transport African American workers from work and home
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Case handled by Fred Gray
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Court decided Colvin was guilty and Gray appaealed
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Women's Political Council (WPC) called for a Bus Boycott on December 5th
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Martin Luther King, Jr and others spoke up about the injustices against African American Bus riders and a boycott was formed
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40,000 whites join the citizen's council crusade as a massive resistance movement
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Get Tough launched to disrupt bus boycott
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10,000 whites attend pro-segregation rally
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Prosecutors summoned African Americans to know who was behind the boycott
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Grand Jury returned indictments against Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr, and others who mostly were women
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Ernest Dillon, his brother, and cousin raped Annette Butler by posing as a police officer and taking her to the swamps to rape her.
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US Supreme Court ruled that segregation outside of public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment
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Ernest Dillon pleads guilty
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Ernest Dillon was sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. This was used to show there wasn't discrimination within the court system.
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Four white men attacked Betty Jean Owens in a car with others. They took Betty Jean and raped her 7 times.
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White men were charged for the first time in Florida history with raping an African American woman.
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The jury decided the men were guilty with a recommendation for mercy. This saved them from the electric chair.
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The men were sentenced to life sentences
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Made discriminatory practices illegal for voters
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Liuzzo Moton a white woman was murdered by Klansmen for shuttling marchers to and from Montgomery and Selma
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Klansmen were seen as guilty but others felt Liuzzon violated gender and racial norms.
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Norman Cannon rapes Rosa Lee
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Cannon was found guilty of rape and sentenced to life in prision
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Made interracial marriage legal
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US Supreme Court granted women power over their body choices
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National Organization for Women formed the NOW Rape Task force to investigate rape laws
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Charged with possession of stolen goods and sawed off shot gun
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Joan Little sentenced to 7-10 years in jail
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Sergeant Jerry Helms sexually attacked Joan Little in jail. In an attempt to escape Joan Little murdered him. This lead to an immediate search for Joan Little since she escaped captivity.
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Joan was arrested for first-degree murder of Sargeant Jerry Helms
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Court Case for Joan Little used the right for her self-defense to speak out against her rape.