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What is Brown vs. Board of Education (Topeka, KS)?
1954 Supreme Court case that over-turned racial segregation in schools
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What are the Freedom Riders?
name of young people who took buses across the South in the early 1960s to force an end to segregated faciltiies
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What is Little Rock, Arkansas?
City and state of a famous 1957 incident in which nine African-American students integrated a high school amidst white mob violence
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What is the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee?
this activist group of young people from all around the country went fearlessly into the south in the early 1960s, especially to register voters
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organized labor
civil rights leaders and leaders in this are teamed up to organize the March on Washington in 1963
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