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Little Bobby Hutton (age 17) of the Black Panther Party (BPP) was shot dead by the Oakland police.
Themes: African American, Criminal Justice & Incarceration, Racism & Racial Identity
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Boston University refused to approve negotiated contract, so the faculty union called a strike, with Howard Zinn as co-chair of strike committee. Other staff and librarians also went on strike that spring.
Themes: Labor
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while in Memphis to support the striking sanitation workers.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship, Organizing
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Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his speech in opposition to the Vietnam War, calling for a "revolution of values."
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Economics, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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The Southern Tenant Farmers Union broke away from a larger organization and became a racially integrated workers union.
Themes: Labor, Organizing
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Jeannette Rankin took her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives as the first woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress.
Themes: Democracy & Citizenship, Women's History
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The African National Congress called on parents to withdraw their children from schools to resist the 1953 Bantu Education Act.
Themes: Organizing, World History/Global Studies
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The civil rights suit of Blackwell v. Issaquena Board of Education was filed on behalf of 300 African-American students from several schools across Issaquena County in Mississippi who had been suspended for wearing and distributing “freedom” buttons.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Education
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Frank S. Emi was interrogated about his protest of the draft during Japanese American internment.
Themes: Asian American, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution was formally adopted.
Themes: African American, Reconstruction, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights
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The last U.S. combat troops left South Vietnam, ending direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War.
Themes: Imperialism, US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage.
Themes: Laws & Citizen Rights
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The U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark.
Themes: Asian American, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights
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Staged ride-ins during Reconstruction in South Carolina were among the first (recorded) organized protests of segregation on a streetcar.
Themes: African American, Reconstruction, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights
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The Trail of Tears removed Cherokee Indians from their ancestral home in the Smoky Mountains to the Oklahoma Territory.
Themes: Democracy & Citizenship, Native American, Racism & Racial Identity
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X met briefly by chance as they were waiting for a press conference.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship
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The Selma marches were three protest marches about voting rights, held in 1965.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights, Organizing
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Nine young African Americans, were falsely charged with rape and collectively served more than 100 years in prison.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights
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Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador assassinated by U.S.-backed death squads.
Themes: US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements, World History/Global Studies
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A network of religious congregations that became known as the Sanctuary Movement started with a Presbyterian church and a Quaker meeting in Tucson.
Themes: Immigration, Latinx
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