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Nine African American churchgoers were gunned down inside a church in an act of white supremacist terrorism.
Themes: African American, Racism & Racial Identity
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Eugene V. Debs made his famous anti-war speech protesting World War I which was raging in Europe.
Themes: Labor, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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When the Civil Defense Administration attempted to hold a drill simulating a nuclear attack, 27 activists in New York refused to take cover. They handed out pamphlets reading: "We will not obey this order to pretend, to evacuate, to hide... We refuse to cooperate."
Themes: Environment, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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The U.S. announced the end to its bombing exercises in Vieques, Puerto Rico after decades of protests from activists.
Themes: Imperialism, Latinx, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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The 14th Amendment to the constitution was passed, granting citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States."
Themes: African American, Reconstruction, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights
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The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Mildred and Richard Loving in the historic Loving v. Virginia case.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights
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Medgar Evers, WWII war veteran and Civil Rights activist, was murdered by a white supremacist in Jackson, Mississippi.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship, Racism & Racial Identity
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Oliver Law became first Black commander of a U.S. army.
Themes: African American, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements, World History/Global Studies
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African Ameican residents of Diamond, Louisiana won their relocation fight with Shell Oil.
Themes: African American, Climate Justice, Environment
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Students for a Democratic Society held its founding convention in Michigan and issued the Port Huron Statement.
Themes: Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights, Organizing, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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More than 100,000 students stayed out of school to protest inequality and segregation in Chicago.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship, Education
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Ben Chester White, caretaker on a farm, was brutally murdered by the Klan in Natchez, Mississippi.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights
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Fred Ross knocked on the door of Cesar Chavez.
Themes: Labor, Latinx, Organizing
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Joseph N. Welch confronted Sen. Joseph McCarthy about allegations of communists in the U.S. Army.
Themes: Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights, Media
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Freedom Riders traveling from New Orleans to Jackson were arrested in 1961.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship
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Homer Plessy was arrested for violating Louisiana's Separate Car Act.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Organizing, Racism & Racial Identity
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Air Force veteran James Meredith began the March Against Fear from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship, Racism & Racial Identity
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The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in three cases that weakened the structure of legalized segregation.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Education, Laws & Citizen Rights
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The CDC published a medical study about five gay men, plagued by a mysterious autoimmune disease, in June 1981 and it marks the start of the AIDS epidemic in the United States.
Themes: LGBTQ, Organizing, Science
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African American athletes gathered to support Muhammed Ali's refusal to serve in Vietnam.
Themes: African American, Laws & Citizen Rights, Sports, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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