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Civil Rights (NonViolent (March On Washington (The March on Washington for…
Civil Rights
NonViolent
March On Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963.
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Sit Ins
A sit-in or sit-down is a form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change.
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Selma March
On March 17, 1965, even as the Selma-to-Montgomery marchers fought for the right to carry out their protest, President Lyndon Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress, calling for federal voting rights legislation to protect African Americans from barriers that prevented them from voting.
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Little Rock 9
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
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Birmingham Rights
The Birmingham campaign, or Birmingham movement, was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer (also known as the Mississippi Summer Project) was a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi, which had historically excluded most blacks from voting.
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Rosa
Famed civil rights activist Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a public bus Montgomery, Alabama, spurred on a citywide boycott and helped launch nationwide efforts to end segregation of public facilities.
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Black Panthers
The Black Panthers were formed in California in 1966 and they played a short but important part in the civil rights movement.
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1968
- MLK Jr. Assassinated
- Tet Offence - a large military offensive in the Vietnam war
- LBJ - Will not run for reelection
- Robert Kennedy - is Assassinated
- Kent State - Riot
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Chicago DNC
the purpose of the convention was to select a new presidential nominee to run as the Democratic Party's candidate for the office
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