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| A member of the Black Muslims (1952-1963),he advocated separatism and Black pride. |
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| Adopted the black panther symbol and made California based Black Panther party in 1966. |
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| African American seamstress refused to give up her seat on the Cleveland Ave. city bus because of her skin color. |
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| Became 36th president after JFK's assassination. Created a slate called "Great Society" that alleviated poverty. |
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| Consistently kept the interest of black workers at the forefront of the racial agenda. |
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| During the Vietnam war the Pentagon Papers were given to the secret Department of Defense study of US political and military involvement, but he felt that the info shouldn't be held as a secret to the world. |
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| Economic Opportunity Act 1964 goal of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President Lyndon B. Johnson, chiefly to enact domestic programs to improve education, provide medical care for the aged, and eliminate poverty. |
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| American Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
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| Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex and national origin. |
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| March on Washington, 1963 |
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| Event for Jobs and Freedom attended by some 250,000 people, it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital, and one of the first to have extensive television coverage. |
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| For 381 days, African American refused to ride city buses in Alabama to protest segregated seating. (December 15, 1955-December 20, 1956) |
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| Heroic acts of carrying wounded crewmembers to safety and manned down Japanese planes with a machine gun throughout the attack on the Pearl Harbor. |
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| In 1960, he was elected as the 35th president that gave federal support to the civil rights movement. America's most loved president. |
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| In the 1960s It emerged from a meeting organized by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in April 1960. aim was to achieve political and economic equality for blacks through local and regional action groups. |
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| March 12, 1947, called for the US financial and military aid to Greece and Turkey in an effort to protect the countries from Soviet domination. |
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| Nixon was suspicious attempting to cover the crime of wiretapping phones and stealing secret documents. Paying off the FBI from investigating the crime of his team destroying evidence and firing uncooperative staff members. |
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| Voting Rights Acts of 1965 |
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| On August 6, 1965, president Lyndon Johnson aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their vote under the 15th amendment. |
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| Brown v. Board of Education |
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| Segregation of students in public schools violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, because separate facilities are inherently unequal. District Court of Kansas reversed. |
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| Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
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| Social activist and minister who played a key role in the civil rights movement who sought equality for African Americans. |
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| Spent almost five years trying in vain to expose communists and other left-wing "loyalty risks" in the US government. |
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| Black Migration during WWII |
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| The dramatic exodus of African Americans from countryside to city and from South to North during World War I and the decade that followed changed forever black America's economic, political, social, and cultural lives. was, up to that point, the largest voluntary internal movement of black people ever seen. |
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| Student for a Democratic Society (SDS) |
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| The movement against US involvement in the Vietnam War began small-among peace activists and leftist intellectuals on college campuses and gained prominence in 1965 after the North Vietnam bombing. |
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| To avoid impeachment halfway through his second term he resigned from office after trying to cover up illegal activities by the administration of his team in the Watergate scandal. |
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| U.S. Supreme Court justice and civil rights advocate. Legal counsel for NAACP as he guided the litigation that destroyed the legal underpinning of Jim Crow segregation. |
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| United States dancer who formed the first Black classical ballet company in 1956 |
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| Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein |
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| Washington Post reporters that helped the campaign for president Nixon's reelection. Known as thieves of the presidential election. |
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| a United States government agency established on July 28, 1917, during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies. |
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| a member of a militant political organization set up in the US in 1966 to fight for black rights by radical means. |
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| a motivational tool used to propose two changes - one was to allow African Americans to fight in the war, and the other was to allow African Americans to be equal in society. This campaign occurred during World War 2. |
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| an African-American newspaper published from 1907 until October 22, 1966. By the 1930s, was one of the top black newspapers in the United States. |
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| began on Belle Isle Parkon June 20, 1943, and continued until June 22, killing 34, wounding 433, and destroying property valued at $2 million |
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| March on Washington , 1941 |
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| by A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin as a tool to organize a mass was designed to pressure the U.S. government into desegregating the armed forces and providing fair working opportunities for African Americans. |
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| developed the modern Blood Bank by developing a method to separate plasma from the rest of blood so it can be stored for a longer period of time. |
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| economic crisis that started after the U.S. stock-market crash in 1929. The prices on the Wall Street stock market fell a lot from October 24 to October 29, 1929. Many people lost their jobs. |
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| first African American elected to Congress in the 20th century, ending a 28–year absence of black Representatives. |
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he principles and policies of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President John F. Kennedy.
A slogan used by President John F. Kennedy to describe his goals and policies. |
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| intended to spread a pro-segregationist message throughout the southern states with the hope that white people would be outraged that their children had to share classrooms with African-Americans and would organize to resist racial desegregation and restore white supremacist rule. Mississippi between October 1955 and September 1961. |
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| interracial American organization established by James Farmer in 1942 to improve race relations and end discriminatory policies through direct-action projects. |
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| law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II. |
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| main aim was to advance the cause of African Americans in America but in a non-violent manner inception in 1957 |
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| responible for the training and making ready the air component of the U.S. Army,became an independent service in 1947 |
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| signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 25, 1941, to prohibit racial discrimination in the national defense industry. It was the first federal action, though not a law, to promote equal opportunity and prohibit employment discrimination in the United States. |
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| surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. naval base and other military installations December 7, 1941. |
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| the use of political and economic power by African-Americans especially as part of a social movement to promote equality and racial justice in the 1960s |
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| troops trained to serve on land or at sea, |
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| under the 34th president a Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state. |
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