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MLK JR

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led peaceful marches for civil rights, first president of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), oversaw 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, “I have a dream speech”

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Rosa Parks

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Refused to give up her seat starting the Montgomery Bus Boycott, in NAACP

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Malcolm X

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advocate for Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam, violent tactics

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Robert F. Kennedy

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Civil rights activist running for election, June 5, 1968, he was assassinated in LA

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Thurgood Marshall

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Lawyer who won Brown v Board of Education, Supreme Court’s first African-American justice appointed by President Johnson 1967

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Ella Baker

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Leader in NAACP & SCLC

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Ceasar Chavez

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Co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) in Delano, California

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Judge Leon Bazile

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Judge in Loving v Virginia, that was later overturned

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Brown v Board of Education

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1954 Supreme Court case that ruled that the separation of children in public schools based on race was unconstitutional

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Plessy V Ferguson

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1896 Supreme Court case that upheld racial segregation laws, overturned by Brown v Board of education

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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President Johnson outlawed discrimination in the United States based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin

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Voting Rights of of 1965

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President Johnson outlawed the discriminatory voting practices, including literacy tests as a prereqs to voting

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Americans with Disabilities Act

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Signed in 1990 by President Bush, federal law that protects people with disabilities from discrimination in areas of public life

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Equal Rights Amendment

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proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would explicitly prohibit sex discrimination

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Defense of Marriage Act

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President Clinton in 1996, defined marriage as one man and one woman. Denied federal recognition of same-sex marriages.

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Prop 8

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2008 State constitutional amendment in California that banned same sex marriage, overturned later

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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

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Clinton 1994-2011 regulations that governed how the U.S. military treated LGBTQ+ service member

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Obergefell v Hodges

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2015 Supreme Court held that the 14th Amendment requires states to license and recognize same-sex marriage.

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Little Rock Riots

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1957, desegregation of Central High School. Arkansas Nation Guard tried of stop them, President Eisenhower sent in army to help the 9

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Jim Crow Era

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late 19th century to the 1960s when laws enforced racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans

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I Have a Dream Speech

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speech by MLK Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963

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1968 Olympics Medal Stand Protest

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demonstration by Tommie Smith and John Carlos, American sprinters who raised their fists during the national anthem.

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Selma to Montgomery Freedom March

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March 21-March 25, 1965 protest to support voting rights for African Americans

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Birmingham: 16th st Baptist church bombing

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September 15th, 1963. KKK bombed a black church. 4 young girls were killed and 20 more were injured.

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Alcatraz occupation

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November 20, 1969 – June 11, 1971 was a 19-month long protest when 89 Native Americans and their supporters occupied Alcatraz Island. Led by Richard Oakes

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Stonewall Uprising

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June 28, 1969- 6 day series of events between police and LGBTQ+ protesters

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Discrimination

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act of treating someone differently or less favorably than others based on their perceived or actual membership in a group or category

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Segregation

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setting someone or something apart from others

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White Flight

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large-scale migration of white people away from areas that are becoming more racially diverse.

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Freedom Riders

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group of civil rights activists who rode buses through the segregated Southern United States in 1961 to challenge segregation law

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Redlining

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lender avoids serving a neighborhood or discourages people from applying for loans because of the race or ethnicity of the people who live there

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BlockBusting

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persuading owners to sell property cheaply because of the fear of people of another ethnic or social group moving into the neighborhood, and then profiting by reselling at a higher price.

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