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The Compromise of 1850 was after The American Revolution that passed laws to free enslaved. This compromise also freed certain states. -
Granted Black African American ment the right to vote. -
Gave Black people equal protection under the law. -
“Separate but equal” -
President Harry Truman ended segregation in the US military. -
Permitted Japanese immigrants to become citizens. -
Supreme Court ruled “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. -
14 year old Emmet Till was killed in Mississippi by two white men. -
13 month long protest in which African Americans refused to ride city buses. -
Rosa Parks arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger. -
9 African American students harassed and kept from school building. -
Created the independent US commission on Civil Rights. -
4 college student in Greensboro North Carolina refused to leave Woolworths counter. -
7 Black and 6 white activists on bus tour of the American South. -
Outlawed discriminatory seating practices on interstates. -
Multiple sit-ins and marches led by MLK in Birmingham. -
A non-violent protest in Birmingham that led JFK to pass Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
Largest non-violent civil rights the nation has ever seen, located in DC. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed” - I have A Dream Speech, MLK. -
Outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, and sex. -
Malcom X assassinated in a rally. “If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary“ - Malcolm X -
Selma, Alabama attacked by state troopers and sheriffs. -
600 Peaceful protesters beaten by police. -
Bloodiest of the urban riots. -
Martin Luther King Jr killed on his hotel room balcony, riots followed. -
Prevented housing discrimination against African Americans.